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HISTORY AND DIRECTORY 



LARAMIE CITY, 



WYOMING TERRITORY, 



COatPKISING 



A BRIEF HISTORY OF LARAMIE CITY FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 

THE PRESENT TIME, TOGETHER, WITH SKET HES OF THE CHARAO 

TERISTICS AND RESOURCES OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY; 

INCLUDING A MINUTE DESCRIPTION OF A PORTION 

OF THE MINING REGION OF THE 



BLACK HILLS. 



GENEEAL AND BUSINESS DIEEOTOKY OF LAEAMIE CITY. 



BY J. H. TRIGQS. 

. /.»-?■ 






\ 1878 



LARAMIE CITY: 

DAILY SENTINEL PBINT» 
1875. 



LARAMIE CITY. 



LOCATION?. 

Laramie City is situated on the east bank of the Big Laramie River, 
one mile below the crossing of the old California Emigrant Road of 
1849, and seven miles below the crossing of the Overland Mail and 
Stage road, and near the center of the Laramie Plains — a beautiful p^ain, 
or park, comprising two millions acres of land, entirely surrounded by 
two spurs of the Rocky Mountains ; on the eastern half circle by the 
range of the Black Hills, and on the western by the Medicine Bow 
range. 

It is also situated on and near the center of the line of our great na- 
tional highway, the Union Pacific Railroad, and has a settled popula- 
tion of two thousand six hundred and ninety-eight (2698), as shown by 
a census taken February, 1875. 

It is the county-seat of Albany County, Wyoming Territory. 

FIRST SETTLEMENT. 

About the 20th day of April, A. D. 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad 
Company commenced the sale of town lots in Laramie, the survey of 
the town having been made some months previous, and the fact of Lar- 
amie City being determined upon by the magnates of the company 
as the next termini town on this great national highway, generally 
advertised the same at all points east along the line of the road. Such 
had been the strife for town lots at Cheyenne (the first town of import- 
ance east of here,) in its early settlement, and such large sums of money 
made there by speculators in town property, that every man in the 
country having money enough to pay for a lot in Laramie City, had 
anxiously been waiting for this important event. Such indeed was the 
anxiety to be first that for nearly a month prior to this time there had 
been camped on the plains around this new town site from two to three 
hundred people ; some in tents, some under board sheds and in shanties? 
and many others without shelter save their blankets and the blue ex 
panse above them. 



LARAMIE CITY. 



L. T. WILCOX, 



DEALttR IN 



AND JEWELRY OF ALL KINDS AND aUALITY. 

CLOCKS AND WaTCHES REPAIRED AND WARRANTED. 



Also dealer in Guns, Rifles, and Pistols, and all varieties of Fire-Arms, and 

all kinds of Fixed and Loose Ammunition 

m- FIRE-ARMS REPAIRED AND WARRANTED. =®a 

Corner of South "A" and Second Streets, - Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. 

PROPRIETOE OF 

^ooD Yard with ^team ^aw ^JVIill. 

Delivers FIREWOOD Sawed and Split as directed, in quantities to suit 
and at reasonable rates, in any part of the city. 

I.AKAMIE CITT, WYOx^IIXO TEMMITORY. 

^ j3 A.BBOTT\ 



DEALER IN 




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OIL CLOTHS, ETC., ETC., 
LADIES' AND CHILDRENS' EASTERN AND CALIFORNIA SHOES. 

" B. HELLMAN, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

'eelai in @1#IUb; 



SECOND STREET. 



ZASiAMIS/ CUT, 



WTOMIJVa. 



LAEAMIE CITY. 



With the sale of town lots began the settlement of Laramie, and the 
rapidity of its settlement and growth may be conjectured from the fact 
that within one week from the day the first lot was sold by the com- 
pany, over four hundred lots were sold or contracted for ; and in less 
than two weeks something over five hundred buildings or structures in 
which to live, or do business, had been erected. 

These structures were of that peculiar kind found chiefly in the 
termini towns along the line of the railroad. Some were constructed 
of logs, some of cross-ties, stood on end, for the walls, with canvass 
roof ; others were made of cloth, with stakes or posts set in the ground 
for corners, and others the ordinary canvass tent ; and yet another kind 
were of boards put together in sections in such a manner as to be easily 
taken down and moved forward to the next available point on the road. 

On the 9th day of May the rails were laid to and past the town ; and 
on the 10th day of May the first train came into Laramie City and dis- 
charged its freight, and such freight humanity has seldom if ever be- 
held. Iron for the railroad, cross-ties for the same, ploughs, scrapers, 
tents, little seven by nine shanties, lumber for building purposes, gro- 
ceries and provisions, Jew peddlers with their packs, fancy goods and 
some that were not so fancy, cooking stoves, crockery ware in boxes 
and baskets, tinware in all shapes, wines and liquors of all kinds and 
varieties, in barrels and boxes ; and on top of this strange mixture, riding 
on the flat cars on which they had freighted their household goods, 
came men, women and children, a motley crowd, as terribly mixed even 
as the inanimate things brought with them. 

Much has been said and much written about the peculiarities of a 
large majority of the people settling these termini towns along the 
Union Pacific Railroad. The worst that has ever been said of any of 
them does not, nor cannot approach the real truth, nor depict the hein- 
ousness of the offenses committed by many of these people. What 
has or can be said of any of the towns on the road, can with equal 
truth be said of Laramie City. In about three months its population 
aggregated about five thousand souls. Of these there were probably 
about one thousand strong, earnest, daring men, ready to face any 
danger, or ready to undertake any perilous task, if they could, in any 
honorable way, better their fortunes. One thousand more that were 
ready to adopt any policy, honorable or otherwise, so that they got 
money, and ran no great risks. The balance, with the exception of a 
few good and noble women, were made up of gamblers, thieves, high- 



LARAMIE CITY. 



STEPHEN W. DOWNEY, 

MtDrDBf it MM al hi 



TITLES TO REAL ESTATE EXiMINED, 

Patents Procured, and Sales Effected. 



COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE AND 

REMITTED. 



Dvv^elliiig Houses, &o. 

EENTED, AND KENTS COLLECTED. 



Declaratory Statements, Homestead 

AND PRE-EMPTION PAPERS PREPARED. 



Notices of Location, Requests for Surveys, Applications for 

Patents, and all other matters in connection with 

Mining Claims carefully attended to. 



LARAMIE CITY. 



waymen, robbers, cut-throats, ^arroters, prostitutes, and their necessary 
companions, who made their living by preying upon the poor laborers 
who, as soon as their month's wages were in their pockets, would rush 
into town from the road and timber, and sport while there was a 
penny left. 

GOVERNMENT. 

The settlement of the town had hardly commenced when the more 
orderly portion of the people felt it necessary to form and establish 
some kind of government, and on the 8th of May notices were posted 
calling a mass meeting to consider the question of forming a provis- 
ional government. This meeting was holden at what was then apart 
of the Chrisman buildings, now the Tivoli Hall, and after some dis- 
cussion it was determined to establish a city government. M. C. Brown 
was nominated for Mayor, John Gurrelle for Marshal, E. Nagle, J. C. 
Chrisman, G. P. Drake, and M. Townsley for Trustees, and P. H. 
Tooley for Clerk. The election was holden on the 12th of May. Over 
nine hundred votes were polled, and the gentlemen above named 
were declared elected. An effort was made to organize a strong and 
efficient government, but the condition of the country and the lack 
of proper material made it nearly impossible, and at the end of the 
third week M. C. Brown, by a letter published in the Frontier Index, 
(the pioneer paper of the city) tendered to the people of the town 
his resignation as Mayor, and declined to have any further connec- 
tion with the city government. Some others followed suit, and what 
was at first, from necessity, a weak government at best, soon degen- 
erated into no government at all. This condition of affairs could not 
last long. Men settled their difficulties by resorting to the revolver 
or knife, and in those personal hand-to-hand encounters the victors 
were usually the heroes of the hour — their victims were hurried un- 
der the ground and no questions asked. Robbery and garroting were 
daily occurrences, and murder not unfrequent. There gradually arose 
in the minds of the better portion of the people a feeling of uneasi- 
ness and fear for their safety. Steps were soon taken to organize a 
vigilance committee, and the first organization of this character was 
perfected in August, and numbered at this time only twenty members. 
There were a few worthy and very resolute men in this organization, 
but its only substantial fruit was the hanging of a young man called 



8 LARAMIE CITY. 



f»io:neer. lumber yard. 
M. £. WEBBER, 

And all kinds of Buildin§^ Haterial. 

Office and Yard : — Opposite Railroad MacMne Shop, 
L^R^MIE CITY, ^W. T. 



WHOLESALE AND EETAIL DEALER IN 

CALIFOilA AND FOeOGN FRUITS, 

€©HFl€Tiei[lE¥, 

aROOEHIES, VEQETABLES, FUESH PISH, CANNED FHUITS, &c., 



]>£ai.]<:r in 

Dry Goods & Notions 

^ tiOME m nn wis, 

Hats & Caps, Boots & Shoes, &c. 

The liargest and Be«$t Selected Stock Kept in the 
City, and the LO^VEST PRICES. 



Call on him before purchasing elsewhere. 

NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS. 



Second Street, between South A and B Streets, 

LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING 



LARAMIE CITY. 9 



the "Kid," during the last days of August, in the building occupied 
as a residence, for some years afterwards, by our worthy townsman 
John Keene. But the hanging of this miserable, insignificant crea- 
ture created an excitement among the roughs, and they at once 
organized thoroughly, not only for resistance but for aggressive 
movement. They boasted of their strength, and threatened all who 
dared complain of their misdeeds with vengeance dire ! Among the 
the. leaders of the roughs may be mentioned Con Wager, Asa Moore, 
Big Ned, Sam Dugan, Tiger Bill, Morris Kohn, and Dave Mullen. 

Their organization and daily crimes finally united all the better ele- 
ments of our society, and in a very short time a new vigilance com- 
mittee was formed, numbering from three to five hundred men. They 
were thoroughly organized and officered by resolute, cool-headed men. 
These men were all thoroughly armed, and on the night of the 18th of 
October, 1868, a day long to be remembered by the old residents of 
Laramie City, this committee met at an appointed place on the west 
side of the railroad track in the city and divided into squads and went 
to different parts of the town. It was the intention to make a descent 
at precisely the same moment on all the more prominent gambling 
hells in the town, and take out, without any great disturbance, some of 
the most noted murderers and robbers, and quietly hang them before 
their companions could rally sufficient force to rescue them. But fate 
had ordered otherwise. The squad of men assigned to the dance-house 
known as the " Belle of the West," had gathered around the doors of 
the same, a brilliantly lighted hall filled with dancers of both sexes, 
gaudily dressed women, gamblers, and desperadoes were whirling 
through the intricate mazes of the dance, their twinkling feet keeping 
time to sweet music, which floated in ravishing strains upon the air, 
and ever and anon a burst of merriment would fill the room, in which 
were mingled the silvery dulcet tones of woman's voice, fair though 
frail, yet woman still. The saturnalian festival was at its height, when 
a pistol shot, loud and clear, rang out upon the evening! This shot 
was the signal for a simultaneous attack at several points in the town, 
but owing to some undue excitement with this part of the committee, 
the signal was premature, and the dreadful attach was made at this 
point only. But at the signal, a shout! a rush! and all was confusion. 
The scene which followed beggars all description. The deadly sound 
from more than one hundred revolvers was heard. The roughs being 
well armed resisted the attack of the committee with desperation; they 



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LAKAMIE CITY. 



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la^ra^m:ie city, T^^YOM:IJN^a. 



The best of Broadcloths and Cassimeres Made Up or Sold by the Yard, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 
CORNER SOUTH "A" AT^ID FIRST STS 

LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



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Second St., between South A and B Sts., 
LARAMIE CITY, WYOMmG. 



Peter ]\j[artiii, 



W'HOLESALE DEALEK IN 



Orders from the Trade in this City, and on the line of the U. P. K. E. are 
respecttully sohcited. ' 

Large experience in his line warrants him in promising the best of 
satisiactiont 

Xj^x*^zxi.le Oity, TTVyoixxlxxs, 



LAKAMIE CITY. 11 



foujrht like tigers driven to bay. What a scene was here, where but a 
moment before all was gaiety. The sweet strains of melody were 
hushed, and in their stead came harsh discordant sounds, tumultuous, 
wild, and prophetic of doom to the gambler and desperado. For fif- 
teen minutes the sharp crack from the deadly revolvers made music to 
the weeping and wailing of the women and the shouts and muttered 
curses of the men. The smoke from the pistols gathered in a cloud, 
and hung like a pall over the heads of the doomed, as if to shut out 
from the sight of the angels the dark scene below. The roughs were 
overpowered, and the results were three men killed, one of the com- 
mittee, one a member of the band of music, and one noted desperado, 
and about fifteen men were wounded, some quite severely; and three 
of the leading roughs. Con Wager, Asa Moore, and Big Ed were taken 
from the place and hung at the same place where the *' Kid " was hung 
in August. About sunrise next morning, Big Steve, another noted 
robber and murderer, was captured and hung to a telegraph pole near 
where South B Street crosses the railroad track* 

For a few days following this event there was great excitement, and 
men at other times reasonably quiet and modest in demeanor, now be- 
came violent and unreasonable. The larger portion of the roughs in a 
very few days left the town, and many others joined the vigilantes and 
became the most rampant and blatant advocates of order, virtue, and 

honesty. 

The vigilance committee as originally formed had now served its 
chief purpose in ridding the town of its worst characters, and a majority 
of the really good men in the committee soon dropped out of the or- 
ganization. This of course left it to a large degree in the hands of 
unscrupulous bad men, whose chief object was revenge. They could, 
under guise of public protectors and avengers of public wrongs, murder 
their personal enemies and go unwhipped of justice. Those now living 
in Laramie who were among the residents of the town during the first 
year of its existence, are unanimous in the declaration of a sincere 
wish that it may never again be their misfortune to live under such 
trying and terrible circumstances. 

Out of this vigilante organization grew the second provisional city 
government. L. B. Chase was elected Mayor. This city organization 
suspended the vigilantes yet carried on to some degree their practices. 
A few weeks after this a young man by the name of Moritz was arrested 
by T. D. Sears, Deputy Sheriff of Laramie county, under suspicion of 



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LARAMIE CITY. 



J. E. FimncK, 11. i., 

o:f:fioe 

^I^ST DOOR ISrORTH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



itoi 



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OFFICE NEXT DOOR TO GRAMM'S BRUO STORE, 

E^mmmMiE gift. wr&Mij^g wmmBiw&BT. 



TREATMENT OF THE EYES A SPECIALTY. 




DEALER IjS 



DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, 

XND 

SIMON BURlXcHErT 

AND WHOLESAI.E AND RETAIL DEALER IN 






|ii!i' liiiisliii Piili|v. 



TRUNKS, VALISES, &c., &c.. 



LARAMIE CITY. 13 



haviDg committed a larceny on Bitter Creek, in Sweet Water county. 
There appeared no good grounds for the suspicion, yet the young man 
was taken to the city jail for safe keeping until some reliable informa- 
tion could be obtained. The then city marshal with a few of his "pals" 
favored the the old vigilante organization, and thinking probably that 
their renown and reputation needed bolstering up, by the sacrifice of a 
new victim, went to the city jail, took young Moritz out, and the near- 
est and most convenient place for their purpose being a ,«mall log 
building, then unfinished, in the rear of the Frontier Hotel., rapidly 
traversed the distance between the jail and this point, paj^sed a rope 
over the log above the doorway sawed in the end of the building, drew 
the man's head up to the log and there strangled him in a most in- 
human manner. He was found in this position in the morning, his 
head drawn up against the log above the doorway and his feet reaching 
the door-sill. 

Moritz was the last man hung in Laramie City, and it may be of 
^pterest to some to know that this city marshal (Lee Griswold), con- 
cerned in the hanging of Moritz, was afterwards arrested in Colorado 
for murder, and in attempting to escape from the Denver jail in 1873, 
was shot and killed by the watchman — a just retribution, surely. 

In December, 1868, the Legislature of Dakota Territory (of which 
we were a part at that time) passed a charter for Laramie City, and ap- 
pointed M. C. Page, Mayor. This government, though leg il, did not 
meet with very much greater success than the former provisional ones 
had. Under this legal administration, in the month of March, 1869, 
the members of the city police, in the night, made an attack upon their 
own jail, for the purpose of taking upon themselves the old vigilante 
role, and hanging George Hays, who had been imprisoned that day for 
some trifling misdemeanor. 

This attack is said to have been made on account of some personal 
spite existing between Hays and Douglass — one of the police. The 
attack was made by Douglass, Rodapouche, and others whose names 
were never known. A man by the name of Irwin, and our i resent fel- 
low townsman M. H. Murphy, were in the jail as guards. During the 
attack Irwin was killed and Murphy was severely woundcil. Hays 
escaped. 

This affair created such an intense excitement that for some days it 
was feared the entire town would be burned by men era[)loyed in the 
timber, friends of Hays, who were at this time in town in large num- 



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LARAMIE CITY. 



J3r- J". J- €DJ-mJ^FUE^^ 

I5E3SrTISTI 



WOKK DONE WITH ALL THE 

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS 

IN STYLE AND MATERIAL. 



OFFICE IX 

DR. HA-RRIS' ROOMS. ^ 

SOUTH A STREET, _ L ARAMIE CITY. 



SIZES, FIvOM A FINGEB-RING TO 



LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING TERRITORY. 



trmmnammnrTiTt •■ immfvi .TiTi-w 



aiSS3ffiB&E!i^uJ«^ 







AND DEALER IN 

LA_DIF.S' AI^D CHILD KEN'S FAISTCY 

And Gt'Mcral Furnishiiiji; Goods. HUMAN HAIR, Switclies. <'iirls. Fric- 

ett s aiMl Puffs, MoBiaii* and L.incn Switclics and Braadt^. £l(ittcriek.'s 

l^atlems lor Kveryone, in all the Iiate!«it Styles, aiways on Iianii 

and lor Sale. For a Perfect Fitting an«l St.vlisli l>ress or Cloak 

go to J»111S. N. B. STltOTVO'S, 

LARAMIE CITY, W. T 



ON SOUTH A, BETWEEN 1st AND 2d STREET ?, 





The Oldest and one of the Largest and Best Furnished 
Hotels in the City. 

>K^FURNISMED ROOMS ANI> I>WEI.I.i:^GS TO RENT. 



LARAMIE CITY. 15 



bers. Quiet was, however, restored, by the influence of a few leading 
citizens of the town, with the assurance that the murderers of Irwin 
and the would-be murderers of others should be brought to justice; but 
the existence of this city government was virtually ended. 

The following month of May, 1869, brought to our new Territory of 
Wyoming, the newly appointed officers for the same, and in June, 1869, 
a term of court was held in Albany county for the first time. The court 
was presided over by Hon. William T. Jones, Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Wyoming Territory. This term of court was effectual 
in bringing peace, order, and good government out of the former dis- 
cordant elements; and the earnest and faithful services of N. K. Boswell, 
sheriff of the county, in aiding the court in its objects, soon established 
in the minds of the people entire security of life and property. 

The first Legislative Assembly of Wyoming repealed the old city 
charter, and left our citizens entirely uuder the jurisdiction of the Fed- 
eral courts, and in an incredibly short space of time Laramie City 
changed from one of the most turbulent and disorderly, to one of the 
most orderly, quiet, and moral towns in the whole " Great West." 

And now, a passing comment on Vigilance Committees, their influ- 
ence, &c. 

While it is true beyond doubt that the Vigilance Committee in the 
early days of Laramie City, rid the town of very many bad men, and 
the world of a few of its worst characters, and established, to some de- 
gree, safety and security to life and property ; yet, at least, one inno- 
cent man was hung^ and another shot by this power having its incep- 
tion from that source. And like all other organizations of the kind it 
was kept up too long. A continued connection with such organiza- 
tions will necessarily sow foul seeds in the hearts of the best men, 
which will in time sprout and grow into luxuriant crops of " tares." 

We And it impossible to give a description or even a complete list of 
names of the first business men, mechanics, &c., of our town, as is the 
custom in a work of this kind. Sutfioe it to say that a majority of our 
merchant princes, business men and leading mechanics, are of the first 
settlers, several of whom came here with a very small capital and by 
close attention to their business have accumulated a respectable little 
fortune. 

These men during the wild confusion in the fall of 1868, by lifting 
the veil of futurity, saw that Laramie City was destined to be more 
than a great camp, and than an ordinary way-station on the road ; and 



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LARAMIE CITY. 



Josepli DelVTars, 

MANUFACTURER OF 

Sola Water ail Eiapr Me ! 



OFFICE AND MANUFACTORY ON 

Soulh A. Street^ belfveen First a7id Seco?id^ 

LAHAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



g^^OHDERS FOR SHIPMENTS SOLICITED. 



€HAEL1S KIJS^IE 



DEALER IN 



Mi illi aM Wap ii 

Carriages Built and Repaired! 




SOUTH A, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIED STEEET5, 

I.ARAMIE t^ITY, WYOMIXG. 

belief ^ SoUiii^^woft^, 

WHO ARE PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF 

III \ lmi\ M% \m% Pafsr Eaps,[lalmi8;,!ic 

SE©@N10 STBlRTt BiTrWEEM ©iMTlHi & S@t!lTHl A. 
LAEAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



LAKAMIE CITY. 17 



commenced the erection of more substantial business houses and resi- 
dences, and are now realizing and enjoying the benefits of such action. 
All buildings, however, were bnilt of wood (except the round-house 
and -machine shops of the U. P. R. R.) until the Fall of 1869, when the 
Dawson Bros, erected the first stone building on South A. street, the 
same being now owned and occupied by Charles Kuster as a liquor 
store ; cost five thousand dollars. The next was the building on Sec- 
ond street, now owned by Edward Ivinson and occupied by the Wy- 
oming National Bank, erected by H, J. Rogers & Co., same Fall ; cost 
ten thousand dollars. The next was the splendid stone bliilding on 
Second street, erected by M. G. Tonn, and occupied by him at the pres- 
ent time as a dry goods store ; cost sixteen thousand dollars ; built 
1870. 

The manufacture of brick was considered a failure, until the summer 
of 1871, when H. H. and Charles Richards successfully made the brick 
for the construction of our Court House and Henry Wagner's store, since 
which time Mr. J. Millard Filmore has carried on the manufacture of 
good brick quite extensively, and very successfully, until nearly all of our 
principal streets are adorned with splendid brick business blocks and 
residences ; and our city corporation can now boast of a total valuation 
of real estate of more than one million dollars. 

FIRST CHILD BORN IN LARAMIE. 

Patrick Sarsfield Keene, son of John and Mary Keene, was born June 
21st, A. D. 1868, and was the first child born in Laramie City. Mr. 
John Keene, the progenitor of this young hero, is one of our most sub- 
stantial citizens, enterprising and industrious, and zealously interested 
in the future welfare of our city, — a permanent citizen. 

PRESENT CITT GOVERNMENT. 

Laramie City was incorporated under an act of the Wyoming leg- 
islature, approved December 12th, A. D. 1873, and started out on her 
career of government on the 13th day of January, A. D. 1874, by the 
election of five trustees, viz: Wm. Harris, M. D., J. H. Finfrock, 
M. D., Robert Galbraith, Division Master Mechanic U. P. R. R., T. 
J. Webster, of the firm of Slack & Webster, Laramie Independent^ 
and James Vine, furniture dealer: Dr. Wm. Harris, President and 
Ex-officio Mayor, all gentlemen of high moral, intellectual and bus- 
iness attainments, who sailed our little ship of government, safely 
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LARAMIE CITY. 



BRAMII,., 

COUNSELOK-AT-LAW, 

/^f\D COLLECTION AQENT. 




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HUTTON & MeTCALF 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEES IN 



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Yeqetable^, 








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Pacific Market* S 



i itreet, 



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(FORMERLY THE CRISMAN HOUSE.) 



IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

DAT BOARD PER WEEK $6.00 

BOARD AND I.ODOINO PER WEEK $8.00 



LARGEST AND BEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. 



LARAMIE CITY. ]9 



through the storms for one year, the most trying time in the existence 
ot any corporation. 

As we are now on the second year of our corporate existence, and 
our city government in a good healthy financial condition, we propose 
to give a short biographical sketch of each member of our pres- 
ent city council, by which it will be seen that our community has 
a proper appreciation of moral worth and intelligence. 

Henry B. Rumsey, our present Mayor, was born in the state of Indi- 
ana in the year A. D. 1842, entered the United States Naval Academy 
at the age of fifteen years, from which he graduated in 1861, served in 
the navy during the rebellion, at the close of which he was promoted to 
the grade of Lieutenant Commander "for gallant service during the 
war." (As shown by the JJ. S. Naval Record.) Afterwards served in 
the European, West Indian and Brazilian Squadron, until A. D. 1870, 
resigned from the navy in 1872, and commenced civil life, by immedi- 
ately coming to Laramie City, and becoming one of the proprietors of 
the Laramie Hotel, his father already being engaged in the business,^ 
where we still find the firm of P. Rumsey & Son in a very lucrative bua-. 
iness. Mr. Rumsey is also largely interested in sheep raising, owning 
one of the finest sheep ranches in this country, and over three thausajidi 
head of sheep. He is a gentleman of high moral, scientific and literary 
attainments. 

Chables W. Bkamel, one of the aldermen, is a native of Andrew 
County, Missouri; born August 11th A. D. 1840, graduated at Bloom- 
ington College, Missouri, in 1859, studied law under William. C. Toole 
Esquire, St. Joe, Missouri, was admitted to the Supreme Court of Colo- 
rado, A. D. 1870, came to Laramie City December 26th 1870, was elected 
prosecuting attorney for this (Albany) County in the fall of 1872, and 
re-elected to the same office in 1874, was admitted to the Supreme Court 
of the United States, October, 1874. Mr. Bramel is an earnest advocate, 
faithful in his profession, and a noble generous man, a first class citizen. 

C. S. Dunbar, city alderman, is a native of Massachusetts, born 
August 17th, A. D. 1848 ; isr a graduate of Easton Academy ; was 
in business in Boston until the fall of 1869, when he came to Chicago, 
and was there connected with the house of Warner, Marston & Felix, 
until coming to Laramie City, January, 1874, since which time he has 
been engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business, and has 
established an immense trade. Mr. Dunbar is a first-class business 
gentleman. 



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LARAMIE CITY. 



RES TAXJRA ]NrT! 

FIRST STREET, OPPOSITE R, R, DEPOT, 

Xj .^Xl..^^I»^X JB3. 

Having united the two Re^tanrantis known as the "AMERICAW and 
**RITTER'S," we are now prepared to aceommodate the Public, as never 
helore. 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. 



MEALS FIFTY CENTS! — FRESH OYSTERS ALWAYS ON HAND! 



dike ifwes and Lifiifs at ie Bar! 

BOARD AT REASONABLE RATES. 



FIKfST STREET, OPPOSITE THE FREIGHT HOUSE. 



LIVERY, SALE & FEED STABLE! 

PROPRIETOR. 

;P0R. ^OUTH ^V A^D JhIRD ^TP^EET^, 



A^^YOMINa. 




m 9, M. M»s 

ir.ARGEST A]VI> BEST HOTEL OBT I.IJTE OF ROAI» BETWEEST 



p. RUMSEY & SOX, Proprietors. 



LARAMIE CITY. 21 



George W. Fox, city alderman, is a n ative of the State of Ohio, 
was born August 18th, 1838, brought up a farmer, served an enlist- 
ment in the army during the rebellion in the 17 1st regiment of Ohio 
Volunteers; came west to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the fall of 1865 ; 
in the spring of 1866 crossed the Plains with an ox train, by way of 
Fort Laramie and the Big Horn, fighting their way through the 
Indians to Montana, where he was engaged in mining until the fall 
of 1868, when he came to Laramie City, since which time he has been 
engaged in a wholesale and retail meat and vegetable market, and by 
fair and honorable dealing has very much endeared himself to our 
citizens. In fact as a benevolent, high-minded, business gentleman 
Mr. Fox has no superior. 

A. G. Swain, City Alderman, was born in Richmond, Indiana, A. D. 
1839. Enlisted in the Union army on the 19th day of April, 1861 — 
four days after the taking of Fort Sumpter. Served during the rebellion 
in the Fifth Regiment Ohio Vols. Infantry. Was afterwards in the 
wholesale mercantile business in Cincinnati, Ohio, until July, 1869, 
when he came to Laramie City to accept the position of cashier of H. 
J. Rogers & Co.'s Bank, afterwards Edward Ivinson's Bank, and finally 
the Wyoming National Bank, he holding the position of cashier through 
all of those changes, and up to March, A. D. 1874, when he engaged in 
the wholesale and retail grocery trade, in which business he is still en- 
gaged. Mr. Swain is one of those gentlemen who only need to be 
known to be respected. 

These five gentlemen of whom we have just written, constitute our 
City Council and present government, and from what we know of thei^* 
moral worth and integrity, they will guard well each and every interest 
of our young municipality, and keep our city what it already is — the 
most quiet little city in the West. Thanks to the ladies and gentlemen, 
voters of Laramie City. We hope yo\i will always show your appreci- 
ation of morality and intelligence by the election of such men. Let us 
continue to have our moral, social, and intellectual interests keep pace 
with those of our finances. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL. 

The first public school of Laramie City opened February 15th, A. D. 
1869, Miss Eliza Steward, now Mrs. Eliza Boyd, teacher. The whole 
number of pupils enrolled during this term of three months, was one 
hundred and six, the interest in which has steadily increased with the 



22 



LAKAMIE CITY. 



WHOLESALE AND KETAIL DEALEE IN 






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fillll 



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DOOES, WINDOWS, BLINDS, MOULDING, PICKETS, 
SHINGLES, 






TAHEED FELT, LATH, LIME, PLASTEEIN& HAIR, 



PliASTER PARIS, CEMElSfT, 




ipwij 



AND 



RAWLIN'S METALIC PAINT. 



LARAM IE AND CHEY ENNE. 

Keeps on hand, a Large stock of 

NATIVE FLOORING, 

Sole Agent for 

FOR WYOMING TERRITORY, 



LARAMIE CITY. 



growth of our city. A good school house was erected in the year A. D. 
1869, which has been improved in accordance with the requirements of 
the school. 

The teaching force has increased with the needs of the school from 
one to three, and is now under the management and instruction of 
Prof. R. E. Fitch, and his two able assistants, Mrs. A. E. Sinclair and 
Miss Kate Dugan, and there is a near prospective need of one or two 
more. 

A strictly graded course has been much impeded heretofore by the 
transient nature of our population, but this trouble is rapidly passing 
away. 

The school now has nine grades, comprising nine classes, and allow- 
ing promotions as often as pupils are fitted for it. The aim is to leave 
old modes behind and strive for all that is good in the vastly improved 
and much improving new methods. The school is now prepared to 
teach all branches found in a modern high school course, which is in- 
tended to fit pupils for the first class in college. 

The great need at present is that of room adequate to the rapidly in- 
creasing numbers of those to be taught. Public instruction has been 
liberally encouraged here in the past, and this eminently intelligent 
and enterprising people are not likely to let this want remain long un- 
supplied. For well we all know that if intelligence and morality are 
to be fostered, the building up of no other interest will in any way 
atone for the neglect of the public school. 

CHURCHES. 

The first religious service in Laramie City was instituted by Mrs. 
Jennie Ivinson, Mrs. Charles Wright, and Miss Jennie Wright, now 
Mrs. Jennie Lancaster, who started a Sabbath School about the 15th of 
July, A. D., 1868. And with that unfaltering heroism peculiar to 
woman, who is ever ready with her sweet ministrations to strew flowers 
in paths that would else be barren and unlovely, making home charm- 
ing even in the wilderness, and daring to grapple with the terrible 
evils with which our people were beset at that time, and which were 
whirling away our strong men with their pernicious currents, these 
three noble women laid their shoulders to the wheel, and the result was 
a calling together of the good people of both sexes, and the Sabbath 
School was soon a known success. 

Soon after a call was made for the Rev. Joseph C. Cook, of Cheyenne, 



24 LARAMIE CITY. 



J. L. MURPHY. B. F. SMITH. 



^s umd Bmildl( 



ARCHITECTURAIi WORK FURNISHED OUT APPLICATION. 



Estimates made upon BRICK, STONE, or FRAME STRUCTURES, and 

everything pertaining to the Erection of Buildings, executed in a thorough and work- 
man-like manner, and satisfaction guaranteed. 

Our long experience in the business gives us the facilities for executing work in 
the shortest possible time, and after the most improved styles. Also, Carpenters and 
Joiners. 

jrOB WORK will receive prompt attention, and be executed on short notice. 
Parties who contemplate Building, will do well to give us a call before closing con- 
tracts elsewhere. 

^er-Shop on 3d Street, between South "B" and "C" Streets, 

I.ARAMIE, WYOxUING TERRITORY. 



BORGMEIER & THIES, 

Blacksmiths iWagonmakers, 

And dealers in all kinds of 
General repairing promptly and neatly done. Special attention paid to 

HORSE SHOEING. 

Orders from abroad solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. All work 
warranted on leaving the shop. 

FIRST STREET BETWEEN SOUTH B AN» C STREETS, 

L.ARAMIE, WYOMING. 

Manufacturer and Dealer in 

BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER AND 
FiisrDiisrGS. 

CUSTOM WORK OF ALL KINDS DONE TO ORDER PROMPTLY, 

ANI> AI,I. WORK GUARANTEED. 

SHOP ON "B" STREET -WEST END OF HOLT'S STORE. 

°Toh^~w!"oo^^e]r","~~ "" 



PKOPRIETOK OF 




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And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

WINES, LIQUOES AND CIGARS. 

Second St,, Bet, So ntliA&B,, - - LARAMIE CITY, WYOMfflS, 

His hall is furnished with fine tables— his bar stocked with good liquors— 
and his patrons receive courteous attendance. 



LAEAMIE CITY. 25 



who on the 2d day of October, 1868, came and organized an Episcopal 
parish — the first church organization in our city. Rev. J. W. Cornell 
took charge of the parish, and on the 21st of September, 1869, a church 
building had been completed, costing four thousand two hundred dol- 
lars, which was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Randall, on said 2l8t 
day of September, as St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. The present 
value of this church property is six thousand dollars. The church is in 
a flourishing condition, with the Rev. Z. T. Savage as settled pastor. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church of this city was first organized by 
Rev. (t. F. Hilton, in the spring of 1869, and erected a church building 
during the year A. D. 1870, at a cost of three thousand dollars, which 
was dedicated for divine service January 15th, 1871, by the Rev. B. T. 
Vincent, presiding Elder of the District of Colorado and Wyoming. 
The present value of this church property is four thousand five hundred 
dollars. The society is in a good condition, with the Rev. H. L. 
Beardsly pastor. 

The Roman Catholic Church was first started here by Rev. Father 
Kelly, a missionary Priest, with Col. J. W. Donellan, Henry Wagner, 
and J. W. Connor as Trustees; church building commenced May, 1869, 
but was not completed until the fall of 1871, after the arrival of, and 
by the zealous and energetic labor, of Rev. Father E. Cusson, the resi- 
dent pastor, who also in 1874 erected a parsonage, at a cost of two 
thousand dollars, making a total cost of this church property, of nine 
thousand dollars. Society in a very prosperous condition. Arrange- 
ments are now being made by this Society, for the founding at this 
place of a " Mercy Hospital," to be under the supervision and manage- 
ment of the Sisters of Mercy, with doors open to all humanity alike, 
who may chance to fall in need of their ministrations. 

The Baptist Church in this city was first organized on the 8th day of 
January, 1870, by Rev. George W. Freeman, Superintendent of the 
Baptist Home Mission Society. Church building erected same year; 
cost, five thousand five hundred dollars. The first resident pastor was 
Rev. D. J. Pierce, who will long be remembered as one of the pioneer 
workers in every reform, and first in the organization of nearly all our 
institutions for the promotion of intelligence and moralit ■. Present 
resident pastor. Rev. H. W. Thiele, with the Church in a prosperous 
condition. The present valuation of this Church property, with im- 
provements made in 1874, is eight thousand dollars. 

The Union Presbyterian Church in this city was organized by the 



26 



LARAMIE CITY. 



BUSSAEB & BEIBT©L, 



PROPIUE'IORS OF 



Laramie Planing Mill! 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



ffif i 




f)mmMM% mmmmL 




JMOULDiisra, 

WINDOW CA^INQ^ AJ^D fF(AIVlE^. 

miE m \m wl n i ui its ue 



Beinf^ Practical Mechanics, we will take Contrat^ts for Buildiogs, and 
furnish Plans, Specifications, and Estimates on application. 

liARAMIJE CITY, WYOMIIVO. 



TEADE DNGINE, FEOM TWO TO TWELVE HOESE POWEE, 

F. R. BrSSARB, Agent for Wyoming. 



Mr§e H, Am T©geleaffl. 



AGENT FOR 






^V^EBKR'S PIANO, 




f 



Hd ^dtJimljeh ^imwl 



Mason & Hamlin Organ, 



GUITARS, VIOLINS, BANJOS, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS. 

SHIEST n^TJSICJ, 

MUSICAL STATIONERY, AND MUSICAL GOODS GENERALLY. 



The public patronage is respectfully solicited, and Orders will be promptly 
executed. 

LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



LARAMIE CITY. 27 



Rev. F. L. Arnold, February 2d, 1871, with the following Board of 
Trustees, to wit: Dr. J. H. Finfrock, L. D. Pease, H. H. Richards, M. 
C. Brown, J. M. Filmore, and IST. C. Worth. This organization erected 
a church building during the summer of 1871, at a cost of five thou- 
sand dollars; three thousand dollars of which was donated by Mrs. 
Daniel Parish, of New York City. I believe this is the only donation 
ever received by any of our churches from outside of our own commu- 
nity. This church being completed, was dedicated some time in Octo- 
ber, 1871. The Society is now in a very flourishing condition, with 
Rev. W. E. Hamilton as settled pastor. 

This ends our church history; making five churches, each with a 
splendid property, well furnished, and each Society well supported. 

Besides these organizations, we have a large number of good citi- 
zens who are Free-Thinkers, but without any organization, who are 
ever ready to unite with good people, of all creeds and beliefs, in every 
project calculated to benefit mankind. 

THE WYOMING LIBRARY AND LITERARY ASSOCIATION. 

The Wyoming Library and Literary Association, was organized, 
September 20th A. D. 1870, by the election of the following officers, 
to-wit: President, L. D. Pease; Vice Presidents, A. G. Swain and Geo. 
C. Densmore; Secretary, Mrs Eliza Boyd; Treasurer, E. L. Kerr; Chaplin, 
Rev. John Cornell; Critics, Rev. D. J. Pierce, and A. G. Swain. 

On the 7th day of February, 1872, the W. L. So L. A. became an incor- 
porated body; and at present the Library contains about one thousand 
volumes, of Standard, Scientific and Literary books, besides nearly all 
the best magazines and periodicals of the day. The present officers are: 
President, H. B. Rumsey; Yice Presidents, Mrs. A. E. Sinclair, and C. 
W. Bramel; Secretary, John McLeod; Treasurer, L. D. Pease; Librarian, 
Dr. J. H. Finfrock; Chaplin, Rev. H. W. Thiele; and has a membership 
of fifty-eight, eight of whom are life members. Library rooms at the 
office of Dr, Finfrock on South "A" street. Terms of membership, two 
dollars. Dues, one dollar per quarter. Twenty-five dollars secures a life 
m.embership. All receipts used in enlarging the library. Books may 
be retained two weeks, magazines three days. This association speakg 
for itself, and from what we know of the intelligence of this communi- 
ty, it will grow with our city, and forever be one of our permanent 
institutions. 



28 



LARAMIE CITY. 



PROPRIETRESS OF 






FIRST STREET OPPOSITE DEPOT, 

BOARI> BY THE DAY OK WEEK AT REASONABEE RATES. 



THJE! BEST BEST A URANT IN THE CITY. 



A. T. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. 
SOUTH ''B," BETWEEN FIUST AND SECOND STREETS, 



m. 

Keeps a well selected stock of choice Family Groceries, and Confectionery, and 
supplies Families or individuals with the best Bread, Cakes, &c., at fair prices. 

4®=" The Mauufacture of Fine Confectionery made a Specialty. 

^rn^menhl Mton0 0tttier, 



Ci??P 



a^> 



SOUTH "B" STREET, BETWEEN 3D AND 4TH STS., 

jLsCbTOumie City, - - - - ^yomirii 



ORNAMENTAL PIECES EXECUTED, BUILDING STONE CUT, AND 

MAS©]S^RY Done in a Worltman-Eilie Manner. 



BUIL/BIE AMB €0IfTEACt^0M, 

Shop with Bussard & Bristol, 

SECOND STREET, BETWEEN CENTER AND SOUTH ''A," 

liARAMIE CITY, WYOMI:^G. 



Plans aM Estimates Macie, Connters, WarSrotes, ani All Kinds of 

"V^OOD-^WOIIK DONE. 



4^0RNAMENTAL WORK A SPECIALTY.-^ei 



LAEAMIE CITY. 29 



A. F. AND A. M. 

Laramie Lodge No. "18," A. F. and A. M., was organized by dispen- 
sation from the Grand Lodge of Colorado, February 14tli, 1870, and 
chartered by the same Grand Lodge, September 28th, 1870. This 
charter was surrendered and the Lodge re-chartered by the Grand 
Lodge of Wyoming, December 16th, 1874, with the name of Laramie 
Lodge No. " 3." This Lodge owns a hall and furniture, worth three 
thousand dollars, and has a membership of seventy-six (76). S. L. 
Mills, W. M., and J. E. Gates, Secretary. Regular communications, 
second and fourth Monday evenings in each month. 

I. 0. 0. F. 

Laramie Lodge No. " 2," I. O, O. F., was instituted in Laramie City 
in January, 1869, and is now in a flourishing condition, with a mem- 
bership of sixty-five. Also, since that time, Albany Lodge No. " 7," 
I. O. O. F., has been instituted, with a good live membership. Wy- 
oming Encampment No. " 1," I. O. O. F., is also located here. The 
Grand Lodge of Wyoming, was organized in Laramie City in April, 
1874, and has had its only two sessions here, which is also the home 
of the Grand Master and most of the Grand Officers. The Odd Fel- 
lows of this city are now preparing to build a hall, to cost eight thou- 
sand dollars, this summer. 

I. 0. G. T. 

Mountain Hope Lodge No. "47," Independent Order of Good Tem- 
plars, was instituted on the 8th day of May, A. D. 1871, by a Miss Em- 
ery, acting under a special commission from the Grand Lodg*e of 
Colorado. Has a membership of ninety-five, and is in good working 
order. 

SONS OF TEMPEEANCE. 

Laramie Division No. "1," of this order, was instituted on the 4th 
day of January, A. D. 1875, by J. B. Cary, National Deputy. A spe- 
cial dispensation, with a charter membership of thirty-two. 

COUNTY SEAT OF ALBANY COUNTY— COURT-HOUSE, &c. 

Laramie City is the county seat of Albany county, and in the year 
A.D. 1871, erected a court-house and jail; a splendid structure, built 



30 LARAMIE CITY. 

Will do all work in their line, 

PLAITS, SPECIFICATIONS AND ESTIMATES, 

For all kinds and classes oi' Buildings, 

DE^T;LM:xisli.oc3L oxx -A.:K>:K^3.io^tion- 

OmCE Am SHOP ON SECOID STEELT, - - - LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 

JFirst St/ert, Between Fisclief s and the New YorJc House. 
IVell-Fitting, stylish, and Biirable 

Boots and Shoes Made to Order! 



I^E:PJ^I"E^I^^C3- hdo^ntie- 



TERMS CASH, and prices to suit tlie times.— Tlie public patronage is respectfully- 
Solicited. 



CET THE BEST! 

SINGER SEWING MACHINES ! 

Mrs. F. A. BLAKE, Ag&Tvt. 

The First Sewing' Machine Agency Established in the Territory. 
Monthly Payments will he received on Machines, or they will he rented 
at reasonable rales. 

Particulars furnished at request. 

CORNER SOUTH "A" AND FOURTH STREETS, 

liaraniie €ity, - - - - l¥yo ruing Territory, 

Manufacturers and Dealers in 



California and St. Louis Saddles, Side-Saddles, Hair Cinches, Riding 
Bridles, Whips, Combs and Brushes, and everything in the Saddle and 
Harness line. 

Second Street, between South **B" and "C,"' 

LAEAMIE CITY, - - - - WYOMING TEHHITORY. 

THE CELEBRATED VACUUM OIL. BLACKIXG ALWAYS ON HAND. 



LARAMIE CITY. 3^ 



of cut sand-stone and brick; dimensions, 44x72 feet, and walls, inclu- 
ding basement, sixty feet high, with cupola twenty- five feet high. The 
basement story is occupied as a jail. The first story above the base- 
ment is cut up into offices for the county officers and jury rooms; also, 
splendid vaults of iron and masonry, for preserving the archives. The 
upper story, comprising one large court room, 40x60 feet and twenty 
feet high, with two small counsel or ante-rooms. The building is con- 
structed with taste, and in the finest style of modern architecture. Cost, 
twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, and would be an ornament 
to any city. 

The Territorial penitentiary is also located at this place, one wing of 
which was built in the year A. D. 1872; the outside walls being lime- 
stone — rubble masonry — containing three tiers of cells, of fourteen 
each J making forty-two cells, made of brick and iron, together with 
other buildings thereunto belonging. Cost, forty thousand dollars. 

U. P. R. R. 

Laramie City is the end and headquarters of a division of the Union 
Pacific Railroad, and all trains stop here for meals. Here are located 
a round house, with twenty stalls for engines, and the most extensive 
machine shops, car shops, and blacksmith shops on the road west of 
Omaha, which give employment to over tTv^o hundred men. These 
buildings are immense stone structures, built in the most approved 
style, and very durable; and together with the Laramie Hotel, U. P. 
Hospital, Superintendent's residence. Master Mechanic's residence, sev- 
eral other dwellings, telegraph, express, and other offices, and depot, 
furnish quite an ornament to a tax list. 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD ROLLING MILLS. 

For a description of this magnificent structure and enterprise, which 
has furnished a crowning impetus to Laramie City in establishing her 
permanent growth and future greatness, we will here insert the official 
report of Division Engineer, William Cleburne, to the General Super- 
intendent of the company : 

"LA.RAMIE City, February 12, 1875. 
S. H, H. Clark, General Super intend eat U. P. M. R: 

I beg leave to submit the following report on the progress and con- 
dition of the rolling mills at Laramie : 

The work of staking out the foundation of mill and putting down 



32 



LARAMIE CITY. 




>i. d. ®l(ow>f, 




fill Wi 




AND 



Solicitor in Chancery, 



WILL PRACTICE IN THE 



uftrenie S ffisirkt ^atqis. 



GOLLEOTIONS PROMPTLY MADE, 



SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO 

Perfecting Homestead aod Pfe-emption 

CLAIMS, AND OBTAINING 

mil iMii_ m mi coMPiii. 

Alisiffa#is #1 ^iil® i® City 

PROPERTY FXJR:NriSHED. 



Real Estate Bought and Sold. 



Will give Prompt Attention to all Business entrusted 

to his care. 



LARAMIE CITY. 33 



the track for the delivery of building material, commenced on the 16th 
of September last. The laying of the stone work, however, did not 
begin until September 21st, and the walls were ready for the roof in 
twenty seven working days from the commencement. The building is 
one hundred and seven feet wide and two hundred and thirty-one and 
one-half feet long, inside. The walls are three ftet thick above the 
foundation, and are built of rubble masonry. The roof is supported 
by a double system of purline trusses, which run lengthways. These 
trusses are fifty-nine feet apart, and rest on two rows of cast-iron col- 
umns, except at the ends, which bear on the walls. The purline trusses 
carry upon their lower chords a series of lintel trusses, which extend 
across from the purline trusses to the walls and upon their upper chords, 
the trusses which support the higher portion of the roof and ventila- 
tor. The roof is covered with Vermont slates, which are fastened with 
copper nails. For the proper work of the mills, nine furnaces have 
been built, with their nine stacks. 

These furnaces are three door furnaces, and are capable of taking in 
nine piles to a turn. One of them is an old rail furnace with a six and 
one-half feet bottom. Above each of these, supported partly by iron 
columns, is place i a boiler thirty feet long and forty-eight inches in 
diameter. The flame from the furnace, after heating the rail piles, 
passes upward, then underneath the boiler, and the heat, which would 
be otherwise wasted, is thus employed in generating steam. These 
nine boilers supply steam to the main engine and five small engines. 
The main engine which is designed for working the roll-train, has a 
thirty-six-inch cylinder and a thirty-six-inch stroke, and is of 875 (eight 
hundred and seventy-five) nominal horse power It rests on a founda- 
tion of masonry twelve feet deep, laid with heavy Rawlins stone, and 
the engine is bedded in sulphur. It has a balance wheel which weighs 
independent of its shaft twenty-five tons. The roll-train consists of 
four sets of twenty-inch rolls, three high, and is fitted with a number 
of ingenious contrivances to facilitate the setting of the rolls. 

The second size engine, for driving the blower, lathe, and doing the 
work of the machine shop, is a very fine engine of sixty horse power. 
It is supplied with steam by two tubular boilers fifteen feet long and 
forty-eight inches diameter, also a stack seventy-five feet high for the 
furnaces of this engine. In addition to the machinery already men- 
tioned, are the following: The cold shears, for cutting old rails in 
suitable lengths for the piles; the double hot shears, for cutting the flat 



34 



LARA.MIE CITY. 



Geo. W. fox, 



Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 









-^-i#! 



OOSNEE SOUTH "B" AND SECOND STEEETS, 

LARAMIE OITL - - WYOMING TERRITORY. 



siBsastseaBBxaM^^ssss^sD^ 



LARAMIE MARKET! 



1^ 



WHOLESALE AND KETAIL DEALER IN 



Meats & Vegetables 

OF EVERY l^IND. 



€AL,IFORNIA OREE.V FllUITS AWI> VJEGETABIiES IX TMEIR iSEASON. 



Having a thorough acquaintance with the business in all its departments, and 
fully uadersLaadiUg the wants ol" the community, in this particular line, he i» 
prepared to accoinaiodate all that give him their patronage. 



A Si^KOIALTY. 



SECOND STE2ET, BETWEEN SOUTH "A" AND ''B," 
LcLTCurrhze Czty, - - Wyoming. 



LARAMIE CITY. 3§ 



bars from the rolls into proper lengths for the second piling; the 
straightener; the punch and slotter combined; the double swinging 
saws, which saw off the completed rail, still hot, to the required length; 
a six ton iron post crane for lifting the rolls to the lathe. Each of thes^ 
machines are worked by an engine immediately connected with it. 
These are all now in place and rest on foundations of solid stone-work. 
Two Earle pumps, which supply the boilers, are now in position and 
the proper attachments made for the supply from the reservoir. The 
steam piping will soon be finished. The painting of the wood -work 
has commenced, and the building is being cleared of rubbish. 

Water Supply. — It would be improper to omit some account of the 
means for water supply. The water, which is taken from a distant 
spring, is conveyed from the spring a distance of 12,728 feet through 
twelve inch pipe, into the town of Laramie City. This pipe has on it 
one eight inch branch, one six inch branch, and sixteen four inch 
branches. These branches are short, merely sufficient to permit the 
citizens of Laramie — for whose benefit so large a pipe was laid— tOv 
connect lines of water pipe, for town and domestic purposes, with thosQ- 
branches. In addition there have been laid two six inch branch, pipes, 
S,132 feet in length. These pipes have nine four inch branches for 
town accommodation, and two four inch branches, with 1.90 feet of 
four inch pipe, to the rolling-mill. The mill, when worked, to its full 
capacity, is capable of turning out four hundred and eighty rails — 
equivalent to about one hundred and twenty-five tons-^per day, and, 
will employ one hundred and sixty men. 

In conclusion, I feel called upon to add that the machinery has been 
set up by F. M. demons, the Superintendent of the Birmingham Iron 
Foundry, Birmingham, Conn., who has exhibited great energy in the 
discharge of his peculiar duties, and afforded me valuable advice and 
assistance during the prosecution ol the work. 

The water pipe has been laid under the immediate charge of A. P. 
Stevens, Civil Engineer, who has had to contend with many difficultiei 
arising from the season and the weather. 
I am, respectfully, 

WM. CLEBURNE, Div, Engineer. 



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LOITER PRICES! 

T&an Ever Offered Before West of tlie lissonri River. 



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IRON FOUNDRY. 

Apeil 1st, 1875. 

Mr, Joseph Richardson, one of the directors of the U. P. R. R. Com- 
pany, has just arrived in Laramie City for the purpose of putting the 
rolling mill in operation, and has brought with him the cupola and fix- 
tures and machinery for a large iron foundry. Work commences 
immediately for the erection of the building, which will be of stone, 
uniform with, and connected to the rolling mill building, with cupola 
five feet in diameter, and a capacity to turn out ten tons of castings per 
day; and we are assured that the foundry will be in operation within 
sixty days. This furnace will be for casting everything wanted in that 
line by the U. P. Company, from a car- wheel to a door-handle or a stove- 
door. It will also furnish all kinds of castings wanted by the public, 
from a stove griddle to an iron front for a brick block. This furnace 
will also furnish a market, and pay cash for, all the old iron lying loose 
around the country; and the company will in a short time commence 
the development of our immense iron mines, which lay in such close 
proximity to Laramie City, and manufacture their own iron. The water 
pipes have been tested, as well as the machinery for the rolling mill 
(which is now all in its place), and everything found perfect and satis- 
factory. The mill will be running in a few days, and the foundry in a 
few weeks. 

Joseph Richardson, one of the directors, has kept the whole under 
constant and watchful supervision. 

CICY WATER WORKS. 

Our City Council has ordered the necessary pipes laid and attachment 
made, as described in Mr. Cleburne's report, and have ordered hydrants 
placed on each of the principal street corners throughout our city; also 
the purchase of hose for the same. 

As these immense springs from which said pipe is laid are one hun- 
dred and twenty feet higher than the town, we will undoubtedly have 
the finest and cheapest (almost natural) water works of any city in the 
United States. 

LARAMIE CITY AS A HEALTH RESORT. 

Our city, in common with all this mountain region, possesses a fine 
and healthful atmosphere. Our average temperature is about fifty — our 



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LAKAMTE CITY. 







Well known to be the Best Sewing Machine in the World. 

For range of work, this Machine cannot be equaled; and as to durability, it will 
last a life-time. 

>@®=" Machines sold on monthly installments. 
Please call and examine before purchasing any other. 
South "B" Street between. First and Second, 

liARAMIE CITY, WYOMISfO. 



m:rs. oordiner. 



SOUTH "B" STREET, BETWEEN PIEST AND SECOND, 
LARAMIE CITY, WYOMIJVG. 

Keeps constantly on hand a very large and well selected stock of Millinery and 
Straw Goods, Mais, Bonnets, Silks, Velvets, Liaces, Ruches, Ties, Flowers 
and Ritobons— all of the latest designs direct from Paris. Also, a fine assortment 
of L.adies' Underwear, Infants' Wardrobes, and Fancy Goods. 



J, Millard liUmpr©, 



MANUFACTURER AND 



H^el^t la litek. 



DELIVERED IN ANY PART OF 
CITY OR ON THE OA.IIS. 



Contractors' and Builders' Plans 

AND ESTIMATES FURNISHED. 



LARAMIE CITY. 39 



averasre rain and snow fall about ten inches, with an altitude, as before 
stated in this work, of about seven thousand feet. Owing: to the dry- 
ness of the air, a temperature of twenty or thirty degrees below zero is 
not so unpleasantly felt as ten below in the states east of the Missouri. 

Malarious diseases are almost unknown, and always amenable 
to proper treatment. Continued fevers are rare, and seldom fata!. 
Cholera infantum, the scourge of childhood in our eastern cities, only 
proves fatal in a very small proportion of cases. Infantile diseases 
generally are mild. Rheumatism, neuralgia, and acute diseases of the 
pulmonary organs, are not uncommon, but are mostly produced or ag- 
gravated by unnecessary exposure. Chronic diseases of the liver, 
stomach, spleen, or kidneys, are always benefited by a residence 
here. Invalids suffering with consumption in an advanced stage, or 
organic diseases of the heart or blood vessels, should not come to 
this high mountain region., as it will only hasten their death. Per- 
sons pre-disposed to consumption or asthma (where there is no organic 
disease of the heart or lungs), and persons debilitated by long resi- 
dence in malarious countries, may come here^ and be assured of 
bettering their health. To all persons in search of health — other 
than those herein proscribed — Laramie City offers peculiar facilities. 
Good hotels, moderate rates of living, its proximity to the mountains, 
its attractions in the way of curiosities, scenery, the opportunity for 
recreation, amusement, or instruction in the way of hunting, fishing, 
botanizing, or mineralogizing, are all abundant and convenient. 

There is not, probably, a single feeble, dyspeptic, or over- worked 
denizen of the East who could not add years of pleasurable existence 
to his life by spending a few summer months here on the Laramie 
Plains, and among the adjacent mountains. To get the benefit of the 
climate, however, he should not shut himself up in the room of hi« 
hotel or boarding house, but should go out into the open plains or 
into the mountains and parks, hunt deer, elk, bear and antelope, which 
are in abundance, catch the speckled trout from the brooks with hii 
own hands, and broil and eat them by his own camp fire, bathe in our 
pure waters, and thus put himself in direct contact with Nature'n 
healing remedies in her own laboratory. 

THE PRESS OF LARAMIE CITY. 

The first newspaper published in this city was the Frontier Index^ 
by Fred. K. Freeman & Bro. This was also the pioneer newspaper of 



40 LARAMIE CITY. 



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iHiiiii. Bbi vift iliif inif i^l» 

J]rOCKEF(Y AJ^D <^LA^pWARE, 

FIRE-ARMS AND AMMUNITION, 

MINING ^ISTD 

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, 

Chattdeliers , -Lamps and CMmneys. 



ALSO, MANUFACTUEEE OP 

Tii^, ^l\eet Ifoi| ki|d Coppefw^i^e, 

TIN ROOFING ^KD 

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LAEAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



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the Territory, being published at Fort Sanders, during the latter part 
of the winter of 1867-8, as a weekly. About the first of May, 1868, 
early in the settlement of Laramie, this saucy little sheet began its 
existence as a daily, and continued a daily issue from the rear of the 
Frontier Hotel, in this city, during the summer of 1868. Late that 
fall it was removed to Benton, then a town near where Fort Steele 
now is, and from thence on to Bear river, where it was soon after 
destroyed by a mob. I find it very difficult to get much history of 
this paper. As to dates of first and last issues in this city, I can only 
approximate, as no complete files have been preserved. 

THE LAEAMIE DAILY SENTINEL. 

This was the title of the second paper published, and really the first 
established in our city; N". A. Baker, proprietor and Dr. J. H. Hayford 
editor. The first number was issued on the first day of May, 1869, 
and was a neatly printed five column daily paper, devoted to the 
interests of our town. On the first day of May, 1870, this paper was 
purchased by Dr. J. H. Hayford and J. E. Gates, under the firm name 
of Hayford & Gates, with Dr. Hayford editor. Under this manage- 
ment the paper started ofi'in supporting the Territorial administration, 
republican in politics, and devoted to the advancement of the best 
interests of the people. In May, 1871, the Seiitinel was enlarged to a 
seven-column paper, and has been issued daily up to the present time, 
and is now one of the leading papers of the Territory. 

THE LARAMIE DAILY INDEPENDENT. 

The first number of this paper was issued in Laramie City on the 
26th day of Dec, 1871; E. A. Slack and T. J. Webster, proprietors, 
with E. A. Slack, editor. It was a neatly printed six column daily, and 
started out with a strong opposition to our Territorial administration. 
Although claiming to be independent in politics, as its heading would 
suggest, this paper espoused the cause of the Liberal Republicans in 
1872, and hoisted the name of Horace Greeley, and consequently drew 
a good support from said party, and the Democratic party, which by 
uniting, elected Wm. R. Steele delegate to Congress in 1872, and again 
in 1874. 

On the 2d day of March, 1875, Charles W. Bramel, Esq., purchased 
the interest of Mr. T. J. Webster, and the title of the paper was changed 
to that of " The Laramie Daily Sun," which then espoused the cause of 

the Democratic party, in its most unterrified form. 

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SECOND HAND STORE AND AUCTION ROOMS. 



Dealer in all kinds of 

W» HAW© ©#©©iSt 

Ifonsetiold Furnitnre, Carpets, «$:c.: Horses. Bug-gies, Wagons, Harness, 
and Remnants of Stock. 

SBCOUD STEEET, BETWEEN SOUTH "A" AND "B," 



Waiter ©tieeemfaeTem, 

ta.xii3Erm:ist, 



Omaha Bee of November 18th, 1874: "Mr. Gussenhoven is a taxidermist. Hij* 
work is superior to any that we have seen elsewhere, and his stock of deer, antelope 
and elk heads are truly magnificent. No tourist stopping at Laramie should fail to 
call and see this splendid grove of antlers, fit ornaments to adorn the halls of kings."' 

ANDERSON & GILROY, 

Practical Harness Makers, 

And Every Variety of 



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Sontii "B" Street, between First and Second, 

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TO ANY AMOUNT, IN SOUND AND RESPONSIBLE COMPANIES. 



REAL. ESTATE BROKER, AND ABSTRACT OFFICE. 

RENTAL AND GENERAL COLLECTIONS MADE. 

liT. Xj. J^^5^x)I^:E■^A^s, office, south "b" street, 
LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING TERRITORY. 



LARAMIE CITY, 43 



SYNOPSIS OF THE LAWS RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS, LIMITATION 

OF ACTIONS, AND RATES OF INTEREST IN WYOMING 

TERRITORY. 

Exemptions. — Every householder, beinsf at the head of a family, is 
entitled to a homestead not exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars, 
wcempt from execution or attachment for any debt, contract or civil 
obligation, while such homestead is actually occupied as such by the 
owner thereof, or his or her family. The homestead may consist of a 
house and lot, or lots, in any town or city, or a farm of not more than 
one hundred and sixty acres. The owner of a homestead may mort- 
gage the same, but such mortgage shall not be binding against the 
wife of a married man who may be occupying the premises with him, 
unless she shall freely and voluntarily acknowledge and sign the same, 
and the officer taking such acknowledgment shall fully apprise her of 
her rights, and of the effect of signing such mortgage. 

Besides the homestead above mentioned, the wearing apparel of 
every person is exempt from judicial or ministerial process; also the 
following property, when owned by any person being the head of a 
family and residing with the same, to-wit : The family bible, pictures 
and school books, a lot in any cemetery or burial ground, furniture, 
bedding, provisions, and such other articles as the debtor may select, 
not to exceed in all the value of five hundred dollars, to be ascertained 
by the appraisement of three disinterested house-holders; Provided^ 
that no personal property of any person about to remove or abscond 
from the Territory shall be exempt. The tools, team and implements 
or stock in trade of a mechanic, miner, or other person, and used and 
kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade or business, is exempt to 
a value not exceeding three hundred dollars; also the library, instru- 
ments or implements of any professional man, not to exceed in value 
three hundred dollars. The person claiming exemption must in all 
oases be bona fide resident of the Territory. 

Limitation of Actions. — Civil actions can only be brought within 
the following periods, after the cause of action shall have accrued: 

Ist. An action for the recovery of lands, tenements and heredita- 
ments, within twenty-one years. 

2d. An action of forcible entry and detainer, within two years. 

3d. An action upon a specialty, or any agreement, or contract, or 
promise in writing, within fifteen years. 



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FINE TEAS A SPECIALTY! 






AND DEALER IN 



Flour, Grain, Feed, 



AND 





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Personal attention will be given to orders from points 
along the line of U. P. R. R. 



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A trial will convince ALL that the place to get anything 
in the Grocery line is at 

Second Street^ between South A and B Streets^ 

LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING. 



LARAMIE CITY. 45 



4th. An action upon a contract not in writing, within six years. 

5th. An action for trespass upon real property, or for taking, de- 
taining or injuring personal property; including actions for the specific 
recovery of personal property, within four years. 

6th. An action for libel, slander, assault and battery, malicious 
prosecution, or false imprisonment, within one year. 

Yth. An action upon the official bond or undertaking of an exec- 
utor, administrator, guardian, sheriff, or other officer, or upon the 
bond or undertaking given in attachment, injunction, arrest, or any 
cause whatever, required by statute, within ten years. 

8th. An action for any cause not before enumerated, within ten 
years. If a person entitled to briDg any of the foregoing actions 
— except an action for the recovery of real property, and except a 
penalty or forfeiture — be at the time the cause of action accrues, 
within the age of twenty-one years, a married woman, insane, or 
imprisoned, the action may be brought within the times above limited, 
after such disability shall have been removed. If, when the cause of 
action accrues against a person, he be out of the Territory, or shall 
have absconded, or concealed himself, the period limited for the 
commencement of the action shall not begin to run until he comes 
into the Territory, or while he is absconded or concealed. If, after 
the cause of action accrues, he depart from the Territory, or abscond 
or conceal himself, the time of such absence or concealment shall not 
be computed as any part of the period within which the action must be 
brought. 

Where the cause of action has arisen in another State or Territory, 
between non-residents of this Territory, and by the laws of the State 
or Territory where the cause of action arose, an action cannot be main- 
tained thereon by reason of lapse of time, no action can be maintained 
thereon in this Territory. 

In any case founded on contract, part payment of principal or 
interest or an acknowledgement of existing debt, liability, or claim in 
writing signed by the party to be charged, takes the case out of the 
statute, and an action may be brought within the times limited, after 
such part payment or acknowledgment. 

Interest. — Any rate may be agreed upon in writing, but in the 
absence of express contract, all moneys, claims, or judgments, draw 
interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum; unsettled accounts 
draw interest after thirty days from date of the last item. 



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WM. O.BO WJY^Y. M. N. GRANT. 



AND 



Mining Engineers. 

MININa CI.A.IMS SURVEYED 

-A_iicl]Pa;teiits Secured.. 



HAVING MADE, OR ASSISTED IN MAKING, MANY OF THE 

GOVERNMENT SURVEYS 

IN 

WYOMING TERRITORY, 

And having prepared Full and Accurate 

Fie id JVbles a?id ^descriptions 

of all the Lands, 
PASTORAIi, MIXERAI., TIMBER AND AGRI€TJI.TlJRAIi, 

WE ARE PREPARED TO 



For, or aid parties in selecting, purchasing and 
WE HAVE ALSO COLLECTED AN EXTENSIVE 

^IJ^ERALOqiCAL 'CJABINET, 

Embracing specimens of nearly all the minerals of Wyoming, including 
€;OED, SIEVER, COPPER, BORAX, PEUMBAOO, KAOI^IN, SOBA, 

IRON, ETC., 

Which we will take pleasure in showing, free of charge to all persons seeking in' 
formation about the minerals of our Territory. 

Contributions to this Cabinet are solicited from all parts of the Territory. 



Land Office and Mining Bureau 

OPPOSITE U. P. E. E. DEPOT, 

la.tia.m:ie city, w. t. 



LAEAMIE CITY. 47 



FEMALE SUFFRAGE. 

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the 
Territory of Wyondag, Sec. 1. That every woman of the age of 
twenty-one years, residing in this Territory, may, at every election to 
be holden under the laws thereof, cast her vote. And her rights to 
tiie elective franchise and to hold office shall be the same under the 
election laws of the Tenitory as those of electors. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
passage. 

Approved, December 10, 1869. 

— We consider this act a very important point Id the history of our 
city, as Laramie City was the tirst place in the Territory, and probably 
in the known world, where this act or anything similar was put in 
force, as will be shown by the following extract from the records of a 
term of the District Court, held in this city on the 7th day of March, 
A. D. 1870, Hon. J. H. Howe, Chief Justice, presiding, wherein the 
merits of the law were discussed, and a decision rendered: 

"The court was duly opened by X. K. Bos well, sheriff of Albany 
county. Now comes X. K. Boswell, sheriff of said county, and makes 
return of the venire to him issued of the following named persons, by 
him summoned as grand jurors at the present term of this court, 
to-wit: Ferry Townsend, James W. Teats, Amelia Hatcher, W. H. 
Harlow, Louis Miller, M. A. Hance, Frederick Laycock, W. S. Bramel, 
Charles Bussard, Charles Hutton, Eliza Steward, X. F. Spicer, Agnes 
Baker, Mrs. G. F. Hilton and Mary Mackle, who, on being called, were 
found to be all present except Ferry Townsend, and it was ordered by 
the coui t, that another juror be summoned in the place of the said 
Ferry Townsend. Xow comes X. K. Boswell, sheriff, and makes re- 
turn of Geo. C. Densmore, as such grand juror. 

Comes now Agnes Baker, George C. Densmore, and X. F. Spicer, 
and asked to be excused fiom serving as grand jurors, and having 
heard said applicants in that behalf, it is ordered by the com-t that they 
be excused; and it is further ordered by the court that the sheriff sum- 
mons three good and lawful persons from the body of said county to 
serve as grand jurors at the present term of this court in place of 
t-hose discharged. 

Xow comes the sheriff of said county, and makes return of the 



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following persons by him summoned as such grand jurors, to wit: Sarah 
W. Pease, B. C. Dutton, and Gr. W. Lancaster. 

Now comes Stephen W. Downey, one of the attorneys of this court, 
and challenges the panel aforesaid, and moves the court to quash said 
panel, on the grounds that said panel is not composed of " male" citi- 
zens, that only such are qualified by law to serve as jurors. Said mo- 
tion was argued by S. W. Downey in support thereof, and by W. R. 
Steele, and T. J. Street in opposition thereto. 

The court having heard the argument of counsel thereon, and being 
sufficiently advised in the premises, overruled said motion. Associate 
Justice J. W. Kingman concurring. Whereupon the aforementioned 
persons were tried, sworn in, and served as grand jurors; and female 
suffrage in Wyoming became a fixed fact. 

The petit jury of the same court was also composed of males and 
females. 

And while the United States, by the "Fifteenth Amendment" to 
her constitution, has seen fit to extend the right of suffrage and elec- 
tive franchise to the male portion of the poor and " down trodden " of 
all nations of the earth, regardless of intelligence, color or race, who 
make known their allegiance to our government, the Territory op 
Wyoming, by an act of her Legislature, has taken up the grand and 
noble principle that our wives^ tnothers^ sisters and daughters^ are at 
least entitled to the same rights and privileges; and by so doing, has 
placed her name high up on the great bulletin board of the progress 
of freedom and true principles. 

We sincerely believe that the great reputation which our city has 
gained, within the last few years, for her morality and law abiding 
character, is due to a great extent to the influence of our noble women 
at the ballot box. 



CHARACTERISTICS AND RESOURCES OF THE SURROUNDING 
COUNTRY, ALTITUDE AND CLIMATE. 

Laramie City has an altitude of "7,170" feet above the level of the 
sea, which necessarily gives a light, dry and healthy atmosphere; foggy, 
damp weather being entirely unknown in this locality, to the oldest in- 
habitant. We have pleasant summers, and mild winters. Very little 
snow falls on the Laramie Plains. A snow to the depth of one foot is a 
great surprise, and that very rarely lasts three days. The temperature 



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LAEAMIE CITY, - WYOMING TBEEITOEY. 



is remarkably eveo. The thermometer very seldom indicates higher 
than 85 degrees in summer, and very few times does it get below zero 
in winter. There are not probably ten days during any winter in this 
valley, that it does not thaw for several hours during the middle of the 
day. But we have within the borders of our Territory the climate of 
all seasons at all times. Points whence we may behold at a single 
glance the majesty, the fury, the gentleness, the beauty, and the deso- 
lation, spread before us like a vast immovable panorama. There are 
nooks in the mountains where eternal snows, spring flowers and ripen- 
ing fruits may be seen within an area of a few feet. Again while we 
have in some of our mountain parks and valleys a climate equal to that 
of Maine, we have as a counterpart in the Wind river and numerous 
other valleys in the North Western part of our territory a climate equal 
to that of South Carolina, and a soil far superior. 

SCENERY. 

Here, tongue and pen alike fail to convey any adequate impression to 
one who has not seen and felt the grandeur, sublimity and illimitable 
vastness of a view from the Rocky Mountain peaks. As the traveler 
leaves behind the valley of the Missouri and is whirled rapidly over 
the plains, a feeling comes over him that he is leaving the old world 
that has hitherto held him a prisoner, and gradually rising higher and 
higher to a new and loftier sphere. New types of plants and animals 
appear; antelope and buffalo bound over the plains with no shelter or 
hiding place except in the vastness of their realm. The gaze wan- 
ders north and south, but finds no resting place. At length to- 
wards the setting sun, white clouds seem to start from the horizon 
towards the sky, which take shape as we approach, and at last we see 
the snowy range, rising like a leviathan, stretched from pole to pole, 



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whose huge ribs are clad in dark evergreen, and whose frosty crown 
has dared the summer's sunshine for centuries, and yet maintained an 
immutable, unmelting coldness. We penetrate the canons and find 
strange, rare and beautiful flowers clinging to the. rude abrupt cliffs 
which overhang the dashing, foaming torrents beneath. Strength and 
beauty mingle in magnificent disorder. We are in a flower garden and 
by a fountain which nature made and walled in, in one of her wild, 
weird moods. It is the sculpture of the Great Artist, executed in bas- 
relief, and with our ever varying emotions, we fancy we stand in a re- 
cess of His studio, and with breathless awe await His presence. We 
ascend some lofty peak, and a world of mountain, valley, stream and 
plain surround us on every hand. The inspiring grandeur kindles the 
drowsy adoration in our souls, and we involuntarily worship. The view 
is indescribable; the emotions awakened inconceivable. It is only by 
seeing that a true conception of the view can be gained; and to him 
that has seen, how puny seem all the monuments and structures which 
the hand of man has reared. 

Where will you find in the broad world such grand, beautiful scene- 
ry as surrounds us at Laramie City? Our sunsets, painted by nature'^ 
own Great Artist, display such gorgeous colors, and reveal such impon- 
derable touches of light and beauty, mellowed with ten thousand rays 
of the golden sun, that the very soul is entranced and spell-bound. 

GRAZING AND AGRICULTURE. 

Through the Laramie Plains run four beautiful streams, viz: the Big 
and Little Laramie rivers. Rock Creek, and Medicine Bow Creek, all 
of them streams large enough to float ties, timber, lumber, and fencing 
material irom immense forests of pine and spruce which cover the entire 
mountain region west of us. And while we were for a time eclipsed 
by the great work of our government in the construction of our na- 
tional highway, the Union Pacific railroad, for the development of this 
country, we need but look for a moment at nature's own provision in 
furnishing this vast store of wealth, together with the much cheaper 
water transportation of the same to our very doors, to see how futile 
and insignificant is man's wonderful enterprise. In addition to those 
streams mentioned, there are scores of smaller streams and tributaries 
available for stock water and irrigating purposes. Throughout the 
great Northwest no place can be found of an equal area which com- 
bines as many advantages for stock raising as the Laramie Plains. The 



52 LARAMIE CITY. 



uplands being covered with a short dry-looking bunch grass, very nu- 
tritious, and upon which stock will fatten winter or summer. The low 
lands furnish all the necessary hay for domestic stock; while the foot- 
hills furnish shelter and feed during storms. 

Immense herds of cattle and horses, numbering away up into thou- 
sands, have for years roamed on these plains and adjacent foot-hills, 
increased and grown fat, without great portions of them being seen, 
except at what the stock-growers call the " annual round-up," which 
occurs every spring, when all unite and bring all stock together, where 
each owner " cuts out," counts and brands his herd, including his por- 
tion of the increase. 

Sheep raising is also becoming a source of great interest and a grand 
success; there being over twenty thousand head now owned in this 
county, as shown by the last assessment roll. 

The words of Horace Greeley, with regard to this Rocky Mountain 
region, "that it cost no more to raise a cow than it did to raise a 
chicken," are emphatically true in this locality. 

We have one impediment to agriculture, and that is lack of rain; but 
this obstacle is being removed, by the construction of irrigating ditches; 
and experience teaches that this method renders a crop more certain 
than trusting to the rains, even in rainy regions, for there they have 
their wet seasons and their drouths approaching at times almost to fam- 
ine as we know by personal experience of the wet seasons of Iowa and 
the drouths of Kansas. In all rainy regions we find plain, plodding 
farmers who sow their seed " trust to luck, stare fate in the face" and 
reap their harvest whatever it may be without a glow of triumph. 
While here in the absence of such showers an equivalent — yea more, 
must be supplied. We construct our irrigating ditches, conveying the 
water from the streams out on the high lands, thereby redeeming im- 
mense tracts of land as it were from the desert, and render the same 
green and fertile by such means. We sow our seed and at proper times 
raise a gate, furnish our soil with as much water as is necessary for the 
growth of our crop; close the gate, and the water passes on its mission 
of redemption to gladden the heart of the next man; and so on to all 
who will partake of its redeeming powers. And we reap our harvest 
with a glow of pride that our neighbors over the Missouri never 
feel. This is one instance of the triumph of energy and skill over the 
adverse elements; and we feel a triumph worthy of pride in the actor 
and admiration in the spectator. 



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At least one million acres of the land of this great valley, are susceptible 
of a high state of cultivation and will produce as great a yield per acre, 
of roots and vegetables, and most of the cereals as any place on this 
Continent. All the tame grasses grow luxuriantly here, by irrigation. 

P. G. Murphy, has grown, right within the limits of our city, hun- 
dreds of bushels of Swedish turnips; each single turnip would weigh 
from five to twenty eight pounds, a great many of which have been 
shipped to different parts of the country by parties who, like ourselves, 
were loth to believe their own eyes when first beholding these wonder- 
ful vegetables. 

Potatoes and onions are also ?)ery profitable and yield wonderfully. 

The land of these plains is now all surveyed and in market ready for 
settlement. 

LARGE SPRINGS OF WATER. 

The foot-hills all around us abound in large springs of the purest 
water, a series of which break forth from their rocky fountain in the 
Black Hills at a distance of less than three miles from our city, form- 
ing a beautiful brook which runs through the town, sending its branches 
through all the streets, beautifying them, and promoting the growth of 
trees and shrubbery, which are already extensively cultivated. 

LIME, BUILDING STONE, AND GYPSUM. 

On the east side of our city, commencing at a distance of one mile 
and extending to the Black Hills, just beneath the surface, are found 
immense beds of the finest building stone, including stratified lime and 
sand-stone, while all around us, near the foot-hills, are large beds of 
gypsum, of a fineness equal to that of any part of the world. 

PLUMBAGO AND KAOLIN. 

South of Laramie City, at a distance of eleven miles, is found a 
strata of pure kaolin, the largest deposit and of the finest quality of 
any yet found in the United States; discovered and owned by N. K. 
Boswell of this city, which in connection with the vast deposits of 
graphite (or plumbago,) found in the Black Hills, is undoubtedly soon 
to become a great source of wealth. Situated as it is in the midst, 
almost centrally, of the great mining region of the Rocky Mountain^, 
where there is such a wonderfully increasing demand for crucibles, 
fire-brick and furnace lining that will stand the test or heat required for 



54 • LARAMIE CITY. 



the smelting of our refractory ores. And from our own observation 
and experience we venture the opinion that graphite and kaolin, com- 
bined in proper proportions, will afford the cheapest and most durable 
furnace lining now in use. Again, with such a deposit of kaolin as 
this, we may soon reasonably expect large manufactories of Porcelain 
and Queensware to be erected in our vicinity, and our city become the 
known rival of Philadelphia in the manufacture of these wares. 

SODA. 

At a distance of from seven to eleven miles south-west of Laramie 
City, are found a series of deposits of soda; all except one of which, 
by analysis, are nearly pure sulphate of soda, (glauber salts). The one 
exception containing fifteen per cent, of borate of soda, fifteen per 
cent of nitrate of soda, sixty-five per cent of sulphate of soda, and the 
remaining five per cent, being lime, magnesia, and earthy matter. This 
analysis made from the dry salt, after losing the water of crystalization 
in which it is found. A company has been formed under the name of 
the " Wyoming Soda Company," by capitalists in St. Louis, Missouri, 
and works are to be erected in Laramie during the year, A. D., 1875, 
for the manufacture of carbonate and bi-carbonate of soda, with a 
capacity to manufacture ten tons of the bi-carbonate per day. This 
resource and enterprise will be of no small importance to our city, 

COAL AND IRON. 

Wyoming is already well known as the coal region of the west; 
more than one-half the surface of our territory is underlain with beds 
of bituminous and lignite coal of splendid quality, a great many of 
which are of almost fabulous thickness, furnishing a supply of fuel 
sufiicient to support an immense population for centuries, in fact inex- 
haustible. 

Again, at a distance of twenty miles from Laramie City, north-east, 
we have the Iron Mountain District, a large district containing moun- 
tains of iron ore in quantities and of a fineness surpassing anything of 
the kind this side of the Alleghanies. In short, our territory so 
abounds in coal and iron, that situated as we are, almost in the center 
of the great west, where an immense demand for these minerals is rap- 
idly springing up, and where we shall have an inexhaustible market at 
our very doors, and on all sides of us, this one resource alone will, 



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when developed, make Wyoming to the west what Pennsylvania is to 
the east. Developments already made, both in coal and iron, bear us 
out in this assertion. 

GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER. 

Standing at Laramie City, and looking eastward, the eye rests upon 
a spur of the Rocky Mountains, known as the ]51ack Hills Range; 
and as we look to the west we behold, first, another spur known as 
the Medicine Bow Range. Then just beyond, and in full view, rises 
up that grand old leviathan, the Snowy Range, the Great Mastodon of 
the Western Hemisphere. 

Locked up in these everlasting hills are countless stores of wealth 
waiting only for the hand of energy to be applied. Nature has 
entrusted to us the key. What if it requires almost an iron grasp to 
turn it ? What if our first excavations hardly seem to repay our 
efforts? We will slacken not our grasp. The same great mineral 
belt, which lies along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 
extending throughout the entire territories of Colorado and New 
Mexico, from which Colorado alone has extracted her millions of 
dollars in gold and silver, extends also through our territory, and in 
close proximity to Laramie City, as we propose to show by a few plain 
facts brought to light by a partial prospecting and development within 
the past two years. Within the Black Hills at a distance of from 
fifteen to twenty-five miles, are found ledges of gold, silver and copper 
of very favorable promise, a great many of which are now being rap- 
idly developed. 

The Metcalf Mining Company, owning seven lodes, have erected 
smelting works for the reduction of their ores; works now about ready 
for operation. Eleven other companies have been formed, and work is 
being prosecuted vigorously by each in the development of their re- 
spective mines. 

Essays of the ores from this locality, made at the United States Mint 
in Denver, Colorado, show a yield of from twelve dollars to four hun- 
dred dollars per ton of ore. 

We have personally traced this belt, or formation, from Pole Creek to 
Box Elder, a distance of over thirty miles, crossing the Union Pacific 
Railroad at Granite Canon Station, and following the eastern base of 
the range of Black Hills, and being just inside, or above, a series of 
limestone hills, known as the Hogbacks. The width of this belt is 



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from one to four miles. The upper, or western boundary, being Syen- 
ite, barren of minerals as far as yet known. And while we find Gneiss, 
Taleose and Chloritic Slates, Trap, Quartz, and Porphyry, comprising 
the rocks of the upper portion of this belt, and bearing true fissure 
veins — as the Meritt, Agnes, Cheyenne, Excelsior and Ransom lodes — 
the rocks of the lower portion are certainly all sedimentary. Many of 
the deposits are clearly connected with the stratification of the lime- 
stone. They follow it, and permeate it in such a way as to give the 
opinion of deposition by means of percolating thermal waters carrying 
mineral salts, and accompanied by jets of gases, chiefly sulphurous 
acid. Their regularities and irregularities alike resemble those dis- 
played by ordinary springs of water permeating the crust of the earth, 
avoiding some strata, saturating others, filling local cavaties and fis- 
sures in others. Now, if this theory be correct, it is most likely that its 
application, as far as the mode of deposition is concerned, will be found 
universal in the limestone portion of this belt. Differences in charac- 
ter among the mines must be explained by the difierences in the mold 
or form receiving the deposit. The ores of silver, copper, and lead 
found in this locality so far, are chiefly sulphurates; nearly all lodes 
and deposits of the upper portions of the belt bearing some gold. 

Within the Medicine Bow Range, to the west of us, at a distance of 
from twenty-five to fifty miles, are found ledges of gold, silver, copper, 
and rich placer mines. The earth of the valleys of nearly every stream 
and tributary penetrating these mountains, contains free gold, and in a 
great many places in paying quantities, where a man can pan out with 
his own hands from two to five dollars per day in pure gold. But this 
is not considered big enough for the miner alone, as in order to pro- 
duce "big pay," "bed rock flumes " must be constructed in some pla- 
ces, "canals and hydraulics" in others; so that, even in working pla- 
cer mines of ordinary richness, to produce good results, capital and 
labor must go together. Consequently we have in this locality several 
quite extensive corporations for working placer mines; among which 
are the New York and Wyoming Mining Company, the Home Mining 
Company, and the Parson Mining Company, together with several 
smaller companies; each of whom have made extensive preparations, 
and will undoubtedly reap a rich harvest during the coming summer. 

During the past winter, and within this range, at distance of about 
thirty miles from Laramie, a district has been discovered bearing lodes 
of wonderfully rich free gold quartz, producing ore which yields from 



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one hundred dollars to five thousand dollars per ton. The first discov- 
eiy made in this district was the Centennial Lode, by Mr. I. Y. Skid- 
more and others, which yielded by first assay nine hundred and sixty- 
five dollars per ton of ore. Col. S. W. Downey immediately took hold 
of this lode, and has since been pushing its development. And thus 
far the Centennial Mine promises to be an immense fortune. Several 
other lodes have been discovered in this vicinity, notwithstanding the 
difiiculty of prospecting in the snow of the mountains in winter; and 
several companies have been formed, and are pushing the development 
of favorably prospecting lodes; among whom are M. G. Tonn & Co., 
Wm. "Waters & Co., Clark, McPherson & Co., and others whose firm 
names we do not know at this writing. 

These ores with the pure gold of the gulches must eventually, bring 
to their development thousands of men, as capital looks abroad for in- 
vestment and as the toiling millions of the old world seek this great 
western land, as they surely will, and as our population shall increase. 
We count upon it as certain that wherever one man can take out of 
the ground two dollars per day in pure gold, the country possessing 
such resources must give place to a vast population. Travel through 
almost any of our eastern states and you will find many poor farmers, 
who toil from day-light until dark, year after year, to raise their little 
crops of wheat, corn and potatoes, or whatever it may be, upon which 
they barely support themselves and families, and the crops which they 
reap, they must first sow and plant. Here Nature has given us acres 
upon acres containing pure gold which simply requires the reapers to 
gather it in. 

Too great importance cannot be attached to the development of this 
resource: not only as characterizing and efi'ecting the wealth of this 
particular region; but also on account of the national necessity of home 
production of these precious metals, which ever have been and must 
continue to be fixed standards of valuation. Disguise the fact as we 
may; talk as we may of higher aims and nobler objects, the fact still 
remains that human enterprise and energy in every sphere of industry, 
even in the learned professions, literature and the fine arts, are directed 
towards the acquisition of gold and silver. The higher the type of civ- 
ilization, the more certain this principle of action. In every enterprise 
the amount of gold and silver gained or lost is the measure of success 
or failure. The value of all things else whether for use or ornament is 
measured by this standard. The production of these metals was the 



58 LAEAMIE CITY. 



prime attractive feature that directed the course of emigration toward 
this region. As Col. S. W. Downey, of this city once very fitly said in 
one of his noble lectures on the resources of the Great West: "The 
gold of California, the silver of Nevada, the gold and silver of Idaho, 
Montana, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming sifted 
out the finest energy and enterprise of the world, transported it across 
kingdoms, empires, continents, and oceans to the trackless wilds, the 
vast peculiar realm of the American savage." Hence with our gold, 
silver, and copper mines, our mountains of iron, our vast deposits of 
coal, together with our soda, kaolin, plumbago, building-stone, lime, 
and gypsum, with two million acres of grass and agricultural lands, in 
the Laramie Plains alone, with four noble streams penetrating to our 
vast for^^sts of pine and spruce, and which form a channel of communi- 
cation by which means millions of feet of timber can be annually run 
down to our great national highway, the Union Pacific Rail Road, 
whereby we can supply a treeless country over six hundred miles in 
extent on the east of us. 

With such resources as these, is there any man foolish enough to as- 
sert or even think that these Laramie Plains, and the grand old moun- 
tains which encircle them, will not in a very few years become thickly 
populated, and swell the population of this city to many thousands. 



WHAT SHOULD BE THE POLICY OF THE NATIONAL GOV- 
ERNMENT? 

[Extract from a Lecture by Col. S. W. Downey?) 

"This brings me to consider what should be the policy of the Na- 
tional government toward the Territories during the period of their 
approach toward State-hood. I believe the controlling portion of the 
population of the Territories are true and loyal Americans — not loyal 
simply in the partisan sense, but men and women proud of their na- 
tionality, proud of their national institutions, history and spirit, and 
eager to guard their national reputation and honor. Being such, they 
do not ask or desire to be fed at the public crib. 

They do not desire that the national treasures be exhausted in the 
development of their resources. But they do ask, and have a right to 
demand that their character, aims, and inevitable destiny be known, 
felt and appreciated. Let it be understood that pioneers and frontiers- 



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men have the same tastes, affections and passions as other men. That 
they are not necessarily, nor in fact, less cultured, ruder, or more un- 
couth. That often the noblest emotions of the soul, flaming up in the 
hearts of fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, have led them to seek 
alone the vaguely comprehended wilderness of the West, to carve out 
a fortune that should minister to the blessing of the loved and left. 

Let it be remembered too, that brave mothers and loving wives have 
followed and accompanied husbands and fathers, leaving homes of 
luxury, daring the dangers and enduring the hardships of the overland 
route, forgetting or never regretting the luxuries forsaken and indul- 
gencies foregone, but with their sweet ministrations of unwearying, 
tender assiduities, strewing flowers in paths that would else be barren 
and unlovely; soothing the perturbed spirit, encouraging the faint and 
weary by the matchless splendor of their own peculiar, unfaltering 
heroism; making home charming, even in the wilderness; even daring 
to grapple with the maelstrom of evil and sin, that whirls man away 
in its strong current — man, strong to boast, weak to dare. Let us at 
least evince, if not adequately, yet emphatically, our appreciation of the 
sacrifice they have made, and the bliss they have conferred, and own 
woman's sacrifice, woman's firiencUhip, and woman's love — these 
three, the brightest gems i7i the crown of humanity ; that a scalp- 
ing-knife sprinkling the palatial walls of New York or Philadel- 
phia is no more horrible to imagine or endure, than the blood- 
drops of our own innocents upon the unhewn logs and earthy floor 
of a Wester7i cabin. 

That the true pioneer has been wont to find at his door the wily, 
loathsome, treacherous savage, knowing that like a serpent he might, 
within a day, turn and sting the fostering hand that fed him. For this 
is no imaginary picture, but history. 

That there is a vast unpeopled realm beyond the Missouri, teeming 
with gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, coal and precious stones, rich in 
manufacturing facilities, and agricultural and pastoral capacity. That 
nuclei have been established for the rapid spread of civilization; and 
that the heart of American population and influence must ultimately 
be at the base of the Rocky Mountains. 

In the youth of individuals, attachments and animosities are formed 
that last through life. The same is measurably true of sections and 
nations. 



60 LARAMIE CITY. 



It should be the policy of the United States government to guard 
reasonably the ties that bind in friendly union all parts of the land 
which nature seems to have set apart and ranged with mountain chains, 
and traced with majestic rivers, to be forever indissoluble. The inhab- 
itants of the West are children of the East. They cherish recollections 
of the past while living in the present, and looking to the future. The 
East is already jealous of the growth and power of the West, and like 
our British ancestry, they already manifest a disposition to impede our 
progress and curb our growth. Had the British Parliament and ministry 
shown toward the American Colonies a parental spirit, encouraged them 
in their young growth, and fostered their interests, they would have 
remained long a loyal help and support, and part of the British realm; 
for then, like the wandering German, they loved their fatherland. 
Will not the old States remember the words of Patrick Hknry : " I 
have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp 
of experience; I know of no way of judging the future but by the 
past." And remembering, appreciate the fact, that the time is coming 
when the Atlantic States will be but as suburbs of the great Republic. 

The visitor to our national capitol, after passing through the vast 
rotunda, whose massive walls are lined with the paintings of our 
noblest artists, and who have given us pictures in our nation's history 
dear to every American, wanders onward in search of the gallery over- 
hanging the vast and beautiful hall, in which one branch of the Con- 
gress of the United States assemble. As he mounts the marble steps 
leading to that gallery, he suddenly stops, chained to the spot, for his 
eyes are riveted upon a painting, which, in my judgment, has no supe- 
rior in either hemisphere. It represents an emigrant train crossing the 
Rocky Mountains. You see before you the ponderous wagon, drawn 
by the ever-plodding oxen, with all the implements of frontier life in 
full view. Far back you behold the dying embers of their last night's 
camp, and immediately in front of the main party you see the guide 
and stalwart hunter mounted upon his steed, with his ever ready rifle 
in front of him, ready for use. The train seems to be defiling through 
a rocky and precipitous pass of the mountains. All this is taken in at 
a single glance, and more too, for you see before you mountain after 
mountain towering high up, until the very clouds are rent asunder, and 
upon one of the loftiest crags, lo! a detachment of hardy freemen from 
that brave band of pioneers is planting our national flag — 



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" The Stars and Sripes ! 
God bless the dear old flag, 
The nation's hope and pride, 
For which our fathers fought, 
For which our children died! 

And long as there shall beat t 

A heart to freedom true, 
Preserve the rights we won 
When this old flag was new." 

This painting is fitly named, " Westward the course of Empire takes 
its way;" and it represents fully the vast trains, the countless hosts 
which have from time to time crossed the Laeamie Plains on the 
Overland Route, leaving happy homes in search of happier ones, and 
to build up and develop the resources of a great country. That broad 
highway is deserted now, for it has given place to another, whose 
trains are impelled with the speed of the wind, and what before was a 
journey of weary month's of toil, is now but a pleasure trip, made in a 
few days with all the comforts of a palace to beguile the way. 

FUTURE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 

What inspired hand shall trace upon the historic walls of the 
Capitol the future of this great Western Land? Methinks the obscu- 
ring veil of future centuries rolls back from the mountains and reveals 
what lies beyond. The grand old snow-crowned range is there as 
erst, and the streams roll down the mountain canons, but the arid dust 
of the plains is gone; forests of green trees wave in the breeze, vines 
droop with their purple clusters, meadows, lawns and slopes mirror 
the coloring hand. Domes, towers and minarets point up from every 
valley, and the busy hum is heard on every side. The mountain 
slopes are terraced and castled. The mountains themselves are in- 
wrought with a network of penetration, whence treasures of silver 
and gold have been gathered for ages. Locomotives thunder on over 
level ways thousands of feet beneath the mountain summits and 
emerge at vast cities in the valleys between the ranges. Old men 
gather the children at evening and tell them strange stories of the 
almost fabulous long ago, when a tramp over the dry plains was a 
work of weary months, and the prospector wandered with pick and 
pan over pathless heights in search of coveted gold. And the morning 
sun shall rise as erst, not on barren rocks and arid plains, but on the 
last realm of westward moving empire, now become the populous 
heart of the enlightened world. 



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OFFIOIAL DIRECTORY OF LARA.MIE OITT, 



f H. B. RUMSEY, Pres't. cB Ex-officio Mayor, 
I C. W. BRAMEL, 
BoABD OF Trustees,^ C. S. DUNBAR, 
GEO. W. FOX, 

[a. g. swain. 

Cleric— L. D. PEASE. 

Marshal—^. K. BOSWELL. 

Treasurer— L. D. PEASE. r 

Police Justice— Ij. D. PEASE. 



ALBANY COUNTY. 



( W. H. HOLLIDAY, 
Commissioners, \ SIMON DURL ACHER, 
/ THOMAS ALSOP. 



Justices of the Peace, \ 



Sheriff—^. R. BROPHY. 

G. W. RITTER, 
L. D. PEASE. 

Clerk— ^. W. MELDRUM. 

Probate Judge— Gr, W. RITTER, Ex-officio Treasurer. 

Prosecuting Attorney — C. W. BRAMEL. 

Superintendent of Schools — N. L. ANDREWS. 

Coroner— 3 AWE.^ VINE. 



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TERRITORIAL DIRECTORY. 



Delegate in Congress — W. R. STEELE. 



TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. 

Governor— Z. M. THAYER. 

Secretary— Q^, W. FRENCH. 

Internal Revenue— K. P. SNOW. 

Surveyor General— ^ILA!^ REED. 

Receiver of Land Office— Or. W. COREY. 

Register of Land Office—^. H. WINSOR. 

Treasurer-^^. W. DOWNEY. 

A7MUtor—J. H. HAYFORD. 

Territorial Librarian— JOHN SLAUGHTER. 

Commissioner of Immigration — J. K. JEFFREY. 

Superintendent of Instruction— JOHN SLAUGHTER. 

Chief Justice of Supreme Court— J. W. FISHER. 

Associate Justices— E. A. THOMAS, J. M. CAREY. 

Attorney General— E. P. JOHNSON. 

Unitedi States Marshal— FB.A:NK. WOLCOTT. 



LARAMIE POST-OFFICE. 



Bound East— -Mail arrives at 10 o'clock a. m. 
Bound East — Mail leaves at 10:20 a. m. 
Bound West — Mail arrives at 4:50 p. m. 
Bound West — Mail leaves at 5:10 p. m. 
Mails close fifteen minutes prior to arrival. 

Office Hours — From 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays from 10 to 11 a, 
M., and from 5^ to 6^ p. m. 

T. D. ABBOTT, Post Master, 



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GEH"ERAL DIRECTOET. 



[Note.— The streets of Laramie City cross each other at right angles. Those 
running north and south — or parallel with the railroad track — on the east 
side of the same, being numbered from the track, as 1st, 2d 3d, &c. Those 
on the west side of the track being named, to-wit: 1st Front Street, 2d Cedar 
Street, 3d Spruce Street, 4th Pine Street The cross streets-running east and 
west — commencing at Center street, being lettered North, and South, as fol- 
lows: North "A," South "A," and so on through the alphabet.] 



Andrews, N. L., Insurance Agent, residence South A street, bet. 2d 
and 3d. 

Albright, H. C, stock-grower, residence corner South C and 4th sts. 

ABBOTT, T. D., merchant and P. M., residence corner South A and 
4th sts. 

Abbott, William, stationer and book store, residence 4th street, bet. 
Center and North A. 

Allen William P., farmer, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Austin, Fred., farmer, residence northeast suburbs, near the lake. 

Abraras, L., proprietor New York House, 1st street, between South 
A and B. 

Adams, James, builder, residence corner 2d and South A sts. 

Anderson, James, proprietor Mechanics House, South B street, bet. 
1st and 2d. 

Anderson, James R., Clark's Restaurant, 1st street, between Center 
and South A. 

Anderson, H. C, laborer, residence south suburbs. 

Ashton, L. H. brakeman R, R., residence corner 4th and South C sts. 

Alsop, Thomas, stock-grower, residence Laramie river. 

Adamson, David, machinist, residence corner 1st and South C sts. 

Andrew^s, A., bricklayer, residence 1st st.^ between South D and E. 

Alwes, August, laborer, residence South C St., between 1st and 2d. 

Allen, William, locomotive engineer, residence 1st st., between South 
F and G. 



GENERAL DIRECTOEY. Q^ 



Andrew, Jolin, carpenter, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Alterfer, Henry, laborer, residence Cedar street, between Xorth A 
and B. 

Austin^ Eugene, switchman R. R., residence Front street, between 
North A and B. 

Allen, William T., locomotive engineer, residence Front St., between 
South A and B. 

Archardt, John, locomotive dispatcher, residence Cedar St., between 
South A and B. 

Archardt, William, watchman R. R., residence Cedar street, between 
South A and B. 

Appleton, Albert, clerk, residence Cedar st., between South B and C. 

BROWN, M. C, attorney-at-law, residence corner South A and Tth 
streets. 

Brown, P. J., locomotive engineer, residence corner South A and 1st 
streets. 

Brown, J. A., locomotive engineer, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Brown, Charles, fireman, boards Mechanics House. 

Brown, J. W., expressman, residence 3d street, between South C 
and D. 

Brown, Jackson, farmer, residence suburbs, southeast. 

Brown, John, laborer, Ingersoll's livery stable. 

Brown, W. S., laborer, residence 4th street, between South B and C. 

Brown, Simeon, laborer. Frontier Hotel. 

Brown, Walker, (colored), table-waiter Laramie Hotel. 

Brown, Thomas, machinist, corner South E and 2d streets. 

Brown, G. P., salesman, residence 1st street, between North A and B. 

BRAMEL, CHARLES W., attorney-at-law, residence 4th street, be- 
tween South C and D. 

Bramel, W. S., trader, residence corner South A and 8th streets. 

Bear, Charles W., brakeman, room 3d street, between South C and D. 

Bishop, Frank, laborer, residence corner South C and 3d streets. 

Brigham, Lewis, laborer, residence South D street, suburbs. 

Briggs, Louis, locomotive engineer, residence Cedar street, between 
South D and E. 

Barnett, Henry, saloon keeper, residence corner 3d and South C 
streets. 

Boyd, Stephen, machinist, residence 3d street, between south B and C. 

Barry, Jacob, plasterer, residence 1st street, between North A and B. 
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BUSSARD, F. R. sash manufacturer, residence corner South B and 
Sd streets. 

Bunker, J. Rodney, carpenter, residence corner South C and 4th 
streets. 

Bath, Henry, stock-grower, residence corner South E and 4th streets. 
Bottom, Perry, locomotive engineer, residence corner North B and 
8d streets. 

Boax, James J., machinist, residence 3d street, between South B 
and C. 

Beardsley, H. L., pastor M. E. Church, residence Center street, be- 
tween 2d and 3d. 

BELLER, JACOB, painter, residence 2d street, between Center 
and South A. 

Beaudouin, John, carpenter, residence 3d street, between North A 
and B. 

Berns, J. N., blacksmith, residence 3d street, between North A and B. 
Babcock, Mrs., doctoress, residence corner North C and 4th streets. 
Bannon, James, book-keeper, residence corner North B and 4th streets. 
BLAKE, F. A., carpenter, residence corner South A and 4th streets. 
Blake, Wesley, book-keeper, residence corner South A and 4th streets. 
Bussard, C. H., contractor, residence South C street, between 2d 
and 3d. 

BAIRD, JOHN, merchant tailor, residence 2d street, between South 
A and B. 

Bemer, Phillip, mason, residence 3d street, near the creek. 
Blackburn, A. S., carpenter, residence corner South C and 5th streets. 
Brawner, David, carpenter, boards Frontier Hotel. 
Benedict, L. O., book-keeper, residence corner South C and 4th 
streets. 

BISHOP, ED. B., carpenter, residence 4th street, between South C 
and D. 

Behan, John, laborer, residence corner Center and 6th streets. 
Bales, Simon, plasterer, residence 1st street, between North A and B. 
Brandis, Wm. L., laborer, residence corner North C and 2d streets. 
Bath, Fred., brewer, residence suburbs, Laramie River. 
Bath, Wm., saloon-keeper, residence 2d street, between South B 
and C. 

Barbero, Joseph, laborer, boards Mechanics House. 

Bath, Herman, capitalist, residence 2d street, between South B and C. 



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Barker, Louis, (colored,) laborer, residence 3d street, between South 
B and C. 

Brandt, M. L., miner, residence corner 3d and North B streets. 

Brees, D. H., locomotive engineer, rooms South B street, between 
2d and 3d. 

Bird, George, baker, at Eagle Bakery. 

BROPHY, JOHN R., SHERIFF ALBANY COUNTY. 

Brophy, Phillip, brakeman, rooms at Court House. 

Brunkce, Henry, bar-keeper, New York House. 

Burke, John, timberman, boards Lacy's boarding house. 

Bower, George, miner, boards New York House. 

BOSWELL, N. K., CITY MARSHAL, residence 2d street be- 
tween South A and B. 

BAKER, V,, auction and commission merchant, residence 2d street 
between south A and B. 

Bunker, C. A., auctioneer, residence corner South C and 4th streets. 

Bischoff, H., merchant, residence 2d street, between South A and B. 

Baxter, Robt., messenger U. P. R. R., boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Burgess, Frank, carpenter, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Byurns, John, carpenter, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Beers, Charles, laborer, residence South C street, between 1st and 2d^ 

Beiswinger, Charles, shoe-maker, boards New York House. 

Becker, W. P., bar-keeper. Western House. 

Ball, J. R., laborer. Western House. 

BOUGMYER, HENRY, blacksmith, residence 1st street between 
South B and C. 

Bruce, James, laborer, boards Western House. 

Burns, Hugh, laborer, boards Western House. 

Burbank, J. K., book-keeper, residence 1st street, between South B 
and C. 

Barron, Samuel, machinist, corner 1st and South E streets. 

Bennett, Osric, laborer. South C street, between 1st and 2d. 

Brannon, James laborer, rooms South D street, between 1st and 2d. 

Ball, Orville, painter, residence 2d street, between South C and D. 

Burton, Albert, bridge-builder, railroad, corner South B and 7th 
streets. 

Buch, C, wheelwright, boards Mechanics House. 

Beardsley, J. E., lime burner, residence 2d street, between South E 
and F. 



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Backus, Mrs. A. H., house-keeper, residence corner south G and 1st 
streets. 

BRISTOL, B. J., sash manufacturer, rooms corner South A and 2d 
streets. 

BURNS, WILLIAM, blacksmith, shop South A street, between 2d 
and 3d. 

Beck, Albert, laborer, rooms New York House. 

Boise, Jeremiah, furniture dealer, residence corner Center and 2d 
streets. 

Bamforth, Fred., proprietor Rolling Mill House, corner North B and 
1st streets. 

Bowman, Jacob, farmer, residence Cedar street, between North A 
andB. 

Bloom, Oscar, coppersmith, residence Cedar street, between South B 
andC. 

Boberg, Gabriel, laborer, residence Spruce street, between South D 
andE. 

Brossins, Charles, painter, residence Cedar street, between South A 
and B. 

Bory, Paul, laborer in U. P. car shops. 

Burns, George, blacksmith, residence Cedar street, between South E 
andF. 

Bolles, William, laborer at Clark's Restaurant. 

Carroll, Michael, contractor, residence west side, near the bridge. 

Carroll, James, brakeman, residence Front street, between North A 
and B. 

Carroll, Patrick, blacksmith, residence Pine street, between South E 
andF. 

CORDINER, WILLIAM, merchant, residence South B street, be- 
tween 1st and 2d. 

Christy, E. A., carpenter, residence Spruce street, between South D 
and E. 

Christy, John, laborer, residence corner 3d and North B streets. 

Christy, John F., painter, residence South C street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Campbell, Fletcher, expressman, residence corner North A and 3d 
streets. 

Campbell, William, carpenter, residence 1st street, between South F 
and G. 



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Campbell, George, well-digger, residence corner South E and 3d sts. 

Cook, S. M., plasterer, residence South B street, between 3d and 4th. 

Cook, A. M., laborer, residence South B street, between 3d and 4th. 

Conrad, J. M , laborer, residence South B street, between 3d and 4th. 

Colford, John, butcher, residence 3d street, near the creek. 

CROUT, WILLIAM, proprietor Frontier Hotel, corner 2d and South 
C streets. 

Crout, Edwin, carpenter, residence South D, between 1st and 2d 
streets. 

Cuppy, James, laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Clark, T. J. Y., real estate agent, residence 2d street, near the creek. 

Clark, Alexander, laborer at Western House. 

CLARK, MRS. S. C, proprietress Clark's Restaurant, 1st street. 

Cameron, Donald, railroad conductor, residence 4th street, between 
South C and D. 

Coult, George, laborer, residence corner South C and 5th streets. 

Collins, J. W., stock-grower, residence corner 2d and South D streets. 

Collins, E. P., laborer, residence corner 5th and South D streets. 

Cusson, Rev. E., pastor Roman Catholic Church, residence corner 
4th and South B streets. 

Connard, J. B., painter, residence 5th street, between Center and 
North A. 

CONNER, J. W., liquor merchant, residence 2d street, between 
South A and B. 

Cowans, Joseph, (colored), laborer at Laramie Hotel. 

Cox, Riley, (colored), laborer at Laramie Hotel. 

Cay, Miss Alma, proprietress boarding house corner 2d and South C 
streets. 

Chatterton, Charles, painter, boards with Miss Cay. 

Chatterton, Frank, expressman, boards with Miss Cay. 

COCKFIELD, JOSEPH, merchant, residence Cedar street, between 
Center and South A. 

Carroll, Thomas, laborer, boards at Western House. 

Cooper, William, speculator, boards at New York House. 

Comer, James, (colored), barber, residence 2d street, between South 
A and B. 

Cleveland, Egbert, butcher, boards at Ritter's Restaurant. 

Cochran, F. S., book-keeper, boards corner South B and 2d streets. 

Collson, M. E., carpenter, boards Clark's Restaurant, 



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Chaplin, L. S., painter, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Ceander, O. A., tailor, boards Mechanics House. 

Ceylander P. P., tailor, boards Mechanics House. 

Crawford, A. B., Sen., railroad bridge watchman, residence, the rail- 
road bridge. 

Crawford, A. B., Jun., shoemaker, boards New York House. 

Cavanaugh, Pat., speculator, boards New York House. 

Corban, Jude, laborer, boards New York House. 

Clausen, Louis, laborer, boards New York House. 

Cavanaugh, Miss Fanny, table waiter. New York House. 

Coykendall, Ed., clerk, Holliday's lumber yard. 

Costello, James, stone mason, residence corner 1st and South D streets. 

Canoy, Joseph, laborer, residence corner 2d and South F streets. 

Cutter, A. C, engineer, residence corner 1st and South E streets. 

CLARK, J. J., dentist, residence South A street between 1st and 2d. 

Clark, Daniel, barkeeper, at Rolling Mill House. 

Chapline, Ben. A., fireman, residence 2d street between Center and 
North A. 

Cavanaugh, John, blacksmith, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Cook, H., merchant tailor, in Worth's Block. 
. Chambers, Henry, (colored,) laborer, Laramie Hotel. 

Clark, Charles, engineer, residence Pine street, between South D 
and E. 

Clark, Charles, freight clerk, railroad, residence Pine street near the 
creek. 

Colby, D. W., farmer, residence Front street, between Center and 
South A. 

Cook, Jabez, laborer, residence Cedar street, between South A 
and B. 

Connors, Charles, laborer, residence Spruce street, between South 
D and E. 

Cardwell, laborer, residence Front street, between Center and South A. 

Craven, Edward, laborer, residence north section house. 

Cobleigh, E. A., laborer, residence north section house. 

DOWNEY, STEPHEN W., attorney-at-law, residence corner 2d 
and South A streets. 

DOWNEY, Wm. O., civil engineer and surveyor, residence 1st 
street, between Center and South A. 

Durst, Jacob, miner, boards Frontier Hotel. 



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Dunbar, Mrs., house-keeper, residence 3d street, between South E 
and F. 

Davis, Reese, proprietor boardinghouse, residence 3d street, between 
Center and North A. 

Durst, Silas, teamster, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Diinlap, J. H., teamster, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Davis, John H., carpenter and builder, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Dekey, Mrs. M. M., dress-maker, residence corner center and 5th 
streets. 

Dorum, John, brakeman, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Dayton, T. J., livery stable, residence corner 2d and South C streets. 

Dawns, P. P., liquor dealer, residence 3d street, between South B 
andC. 

Donahue, Phillip, locomotive engineer, residence corner South B and 
Cedar streets. 

Donahue John T., locomotive engineer, residence corner South B 
and Vth streets. 

Dulmaine, Z., carriage-maker, boards New York House. 

DEMARS, JOE., manufacturer soda water, residence South A street, 
between 1st and 2d. 

Demars, Paul, manufacturer soda water, residence South A street, 
between 1st and 2d. 

DUNBAR, C. S , merchant, boards Laramie Hotel. 

Dunbar, C. M., salesman, boards Laramie Hotel. 

DURLACHER, SIMON, merchant, residence 2d street, between 
South A and B. 

Davidson, Ward, printer. Sentinel Office. 

Dubois, J. D., painter, boards Mechanics' House. 

Dunn, A. G., railroad conductor, residence 1st street between South 
A and B. 

Dunn, H. J., railroad conductor, residence Front street between 
North A and B. 

DORAN, PATRICK, proprietor Western House, 1st street between 
South B and C. 

Dohney, Wm., laborer, boards Western House. 

Ditty, Norris, laborer, boards Western House. 

Dugan, T. F., policeman, residence corner 1st and South B streets. 

Davis, Isaac, teamster, residence 2d street, near the creek. 

Davisj John A., laborer, residencei 1st street, between South D and E, 



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Dugan, Miss Kate, school-teacher, residence corner South B and 1st 
streets. 

Deane, Geo. D., machinist, residence corner South D and 2d streets. 

Drasher, F., mason, residence corner South E and 2d streets. 

Dunning, Wm., stock-grower, residence corner South F and 2d 
streets. 

Dudley, Wm. H., foreman work-train railroad, residence South Sec- 
tion House. 

Davis, Thomas, Sr., machinist, residence 1st street, between South F 
and G. 

Decoster, F. O., blacksmith, residence 2d street, between South F 
and G. 

Dawson, T. L., contractor, residence 2d street, between 1st and 2d. 

Dana, Geo. H., clerk locomotive depot U. P. R. E,., residence near 
TJ. P. hospital. 

Dillon, Thomas, livery stable and saloon, residence corner 1st and 
South A streets. 

Doddridge, W. B., freight agent U. P. R. R., residence suburbs 
South Laramie. 

Daly, James, laborer, residence Cedar street, between Xorth A and B. 

Eurgens, A., train dispatcher U. P. R. R., boards Laramie Hotel. 

Enfield, Solomon, carpenter, residence 2d street, between Center and 
North A. 

Ely, A. W., locomotive engineer, residence corner 2d and South A 
streets. 

Estridge, Wm. E., teamster, boards New York House. 

Eppich, John, laborer, residence South D street, between 1st and 2d. 

Eekerj John, laborer, boards New York House. 

Edmunds, Oliver, cook at Rolling Mill House. 

Edmunds, George, machinist, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Earl, S. T., blacksmith, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Ellis, John, pensioner, residence corner Front and South B streets. 

Ellis, Jacob, machinist, boards Mechanics' House. 

Edson, Wm., laborer, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Fowler, W. G., miner, residence 2d street, between South F and G. 

Fee, John, stock-grower, residence corner 4th and South D streets. 

Fee, Lawrence, constable, residence suburbs, near the river. 

Fee, Lawrence, laborer, residence suburbs, near the river. 

Fee, Terrance, laborer, residence suburbs, near the river. 



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FINFROCK, J. H., physician and surgeon, residence 4th street, be- 
tween South A and B. 

Fillmore, Luther, stock-grower, residence South B street, between 
4th and 5 th. 

FILLMORE, J. M., contractor and builder, residence corner South 
A and 7th streets. 

FOX, GEORGE W., meat and vegetable market, residence South A 
street, between 3d and 4th. 

Fiuchtenbush, Herman, book-keeper, residence corner South D and 
4th streets. 

French, G. K, laborer, boards at Frontier Hotel. 

French, A. C, employee railroad company, residence Spruce street, 
suburbs. 

FEAST, THOMAS, carpenter, residence 2d street, between Center 
and South A. 

Fitch, R. E., principal public schools, residence corner Center and 
5th streets. 

Feinn, John J., brewer, residence South C street, between 2d and 3d. 

Fagan, Thomas, saloon keeper, residence 2d street, between South B 
and C. 

Fischer, Charles, laborer, residence 2d street, between South B 
andC. 

Fischer, William, restaurant proprietor, residence 2d street, between 
South B and C. 

FISCHER, JOHIST A., merchant, corner South A and 1st streets. 

Fuhr, Paul, proprietor Fuhr's Restaurant, South B street. 

Fuhr, George, stock-grower, residence restaurant South B street. 

Fuller, Samuel, butcher for Fox's market. 

Flaherty, John, laborer, 3d street, between Center and North A. 

Fetting, A. W., salesman at Dunbar's. 

Ford, J. L., machinist, rooms Fischer's block. 

Farrel, Dennis, laborer, boards at Western House. 

Felch, Josephus, laborer, residence suburbs, near the creek. 

Frotzcher, William R., stone mason, boards at New York House. 

Fegge, Chris, druggist, at Gramm's 

Fenwick, John, locomotive engineer, residence Cedar street, between 
South F and G. 

Fenwick, Alex, fireman, residence Cedar street, between South F 

andG. 

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Floyd, Charles, locomotive engineer, residence corner Cedar and 
South 6th streets. 

GRAMM, OTTO, druggist, residence South A street, between Ist 
and 2d. 

Godat, Mrs. C. A., weaver, residence corner South C and 3d streets. 

Goddard, O., brakeman, residence South C and 4th street. 

Gerber, Emanuel, saloon keeper, residence South B street, between 
1st and 2d. 

GREGORY, A. J., meat market, residence corner 3d and North G 
streets. 

Garrett, John, farmer, residence suburbs East Laramie. 

Garrett, George, locomotive engineer, residence 4th near the creek. 

Green, Arthur, laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Guinan, John, stone mason, residence corner North A and 5th streets. 

Guinan, Andrew, farmer, residence corner Center and 6th streets. 

Gilson, Frank G., musician, residence corner South B and 2d streets. 

Grosscurth, Wm., baker, residence corner South B and 2d streets. 

Gilroy, Edward, harness maker, boards Mechanics House. 

Goode, Geo. J., accountant, rooms corner Center and 3d streets. 

GATES, J. E., printer, residence corner Center and 2d streets. 

Ganong, James, brakeman, boards Laramie Hotel. 

Grimes, John, boot maker, residence South A street, between Ist & 2d. 

Gibbons, John, laborer, boards Western House. 

Garvey, Charles, teamster, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Goodlit, Ben., laborer, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Grady, James, laborer, residence South D street, between 1st and 2d. 

Galbraith, R., master mechanic, U. P. R. R., residence corner North 
A and 2d streets. 

Goetz, Henry, brewer, residence South C street, between 1st and 2d, 

Gardener, Charles, laborer, boards New York House. 

Grover, John, salesman, boards corner of South A and 4th streets. 

Griffin, Jeremiah, machinist, residence suburbs south. 

Godfrey, J. E. section-foreman, R. R., residence north section house. 

Goose, Thomas, blacksmith, boards Rolling Mill House. 

GUSSENHOVEN, WALTER, Taxidermist, residence on third 
street, between South B and C. 

HAYFORD, J. H., Editor of the Laramie Sentinel, residence 
corner of North A and 2d streets. 

Hildreth, G. H., bookkeeper at Clark's Restaurant. 



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Ham, G. W., mason, residence 3d street, between South G and H. 

HOLT, PETER, merchant, residence suburbs. East Laramie. 
, HARRIS, WM., physician and surgeon, residence corner of od and 
North A streets. 

Harris, Wm., farmer, residence suburbs. East Laramie. 

Harris, Jno. W., local engineer, residence 3d street, between North 
A and B. 

Harris, Charles, (colored) table-waiter, Laramie Hotel. 

Harris, Miss Belle, table-waiter. New York House. 

Harrison, Mrs. Elizabeth, residence South B street, between 4th 
and 5th. 

Hoffman, H. W., harness maker, corner South B and 3d streets. 

Hunter, Wm., J., expressman, residence corner of Center and 3d 
streets. 

HUTTON, CHAS. H., stock grower, residence corner of South A 
and 3d streets. 

Hader Henry, local engineer, residence on 3d street, between South 
A and B. 

Hesse, Henry, laborer at IngersolPs Livery Stable. 

Hesse, Jno. F., bartender, residence corner of North B and 1st 
streets. 

Houston, Chas., railroad conductor, residence corner of Center 
and 3d streets. 

Houston, Al., hunter, residence 3d street, between Center and 
North A. 

HOLLINGSWORTH, A., painter, residence on 2d street, between 
Center and South A. 

Harper Geo., stock-grower, residence on South B between 4th and 
5th streets. 

Harte, Will H., bookkeeper, boards at corner South A and 4th 
streets. 

Haley, Ora, stock-grower, residence on North A street, between 3d 
and 4th. 

Horn, Thomas, laborer, boards at Frontier Hotel. 

Hamilton, Rev. W. E., pastor Presbyterian church, corner Cedar and 
North A streets. 

Hamilton, H. A., cook Frontier Hotel. 

Herness, Mrs. Julia, house-keeper, residence Cedar street, between 
South A and B. 



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Hedges, Jonas, laborer, residence 2d street, near the creek. 

Heath, N. A., railroad conductor, residence corner north A and 3d 
streets. 

Heath, W. A., painter, residence front street, between North A and B. 

Hance, M. A., general business agent, residence corner North B and 
2d streets. 

Humberg, Albert, mason, residence Mechanics House. 

Heinan, Peter, laborer City Brewery. 

Hyson, William, (colored), waiter Laramie Hotel. 

Hammer, E. D., druggist, boards at Ritter's Restaurant. 

Hultberg, S. P., tinner, boards at Mechanics House. 

House, A. J., guard at Penitentiary, residence South B street between 
2d and 3d. 

Harrington, Henry, laborer, boards at New York House. 

Hernandes, E, laborer, residence suburbs, East Laramie. 

Helfreich, A., jeweler, rooms in Vogelsang's block. 

Holcomb, J. F., tinner, corner South A and 2d streets. 

Huck, Louis, machinist, residence corner South A and 1st streets. 

Horton, Charles, (colored), barber, boards South A street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Holland, Robert, (colored), cook, boards South A street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Herrick, E, A., locomotive engineer, boards at Worth's Hotel. 

Hogan, William, laborer, boards at Western House. 

HOLLIDAY, WILLIAM, lumber dealer, residence corner South C 
and 1st streets. 

Haylon, Mrs. Emma, housekeeper, residence 3d street, between South 
C and D. 

Hamblen, G. H., laborer, residence 2d street, between South F. and G. 

Hardman, James, machinist, residence corner South G and 1st sts, 

Halloway, Henry, blacksmith, residence 1st street, between South F 
andG. 

Hartman, William, laborer, residence 1st street, between South E 
andF. 

Hanson, H. M., expressman, residence Cedar street, between Center 
and South E. 

Hodgeman, Dan., mason, boards at Ritter's Restaurant. 

Hodgeman, Henry, railroad conductor, residence corner Cedar and 
North A streets. 



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Holbert, John, miner, boards at Mechanics House. 

Hunter, O. F., fireman, residence Front street, between North A 
and B. 

Heavener, Floyd, superintendent car depot, boards at Worth's Ho- 
tel. 

Hunt, Ellen, laundress. Cedar street. 

Harman, Conrad, laborer, residence Spruce street, between South D 
and E. 

Hines, Joseph, machinist, residence Spruce street, between South D 
and E. 

Hamin, Charles, laborer, residence Spruce street, between South D 
and E. 

Healy, Patrick, blacksmith, residence Pine street, between South D 
andE. 

Hartwigson, A., laborer, residence south suburbs. 

Hill, John, locomotive engineer, rooms in Vogelsang's block. 

IVINSON, EDWARD, banker, residence 2d street, between South 
A and B. 

lyinson, Nelson, butcher, boards at Mechanics House. 

INGERSOLL, J. M., livery keeper, residence corner South A and 
3d streets. 

Irvin, Matt., (colored), laborer Laramie Hotel. 

Ingraham, Charles, laborer at Rolling Mill House. 

Jenninscs, M., deputy p&stmaster, residence corner South A and 6th 
streets. 

Jameson, W. A., harness maker, residence corner South B and 3d 
streets. 

James, Max, miner, boards at Frontier Hotel. 

Judd, C. T., carpenter, residence South C street, between 2d and 3d. 

Johnson, Noah, brakeman, boards at Mechanics House. 

Johnson, James, clerk, residence corner South B and Cedar streets. 

Johnson, Henry, (colored) laborer, residence South B street, between 
2d and 3d. 

Johnson, A. R., printer in Sentinel office. 

Johnson, Ed., herder, boards at Western House. 

Johnson, Marion, laborer, residence South C street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Johnson, John, lumberman, residence Front street, between South A 
andB. 



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Johnson, Antonia, carpenter, residence 2d street, between South D 
andE. 

Johnson, Mrs. Hattie, laundress at Laramie Hotel. 

Johnson, Alex., car inspector, residence corner Spruce and South C 
streets. 

Johnson, Louis, laborer, residence Spruce street, between South D 
andE. 

Johnson, Peter, laborer, residence suburbs southwest. 

Johnson, Henry, locomotive engineer, residence suburbs southwest. 

Johnson, Christian, laborer, residence suburbs southwest. 

Johnson, Oscar, laborer, rooms in car shop. 

Jones, C. A., bath house, residence Cedar street, between South D 
and E. 

Jones Simon, salesman at Gregory's meat market. 

Jones, D. M., brick mason, boards at Mechanics House. \ 

James, Dill H., printer in Sentinel office. 

Jail, John, fireman, boards at New York House. 

Jarvis, Mrs. A., housekeeper, residence 2d street, between South C 
and D. 

Jacobs, F. W., shoemaker, boards at Worth's Hotel. 

Jahren, Mons., bar-tender at Mechanics House. 

Jepson, Chris., fireman, boards at ISTew York House. 

Kassner, Frank, locomotive engineer, residence corner North B and 
Front streets. 

Kane, Charles, fireman, boards at Miss Cay's boarding house. 

Kellogg, John, farmer, residence 3d street, suburbs south. 

Kennedy, I. V. B., road master U. P. R. R., residence corner South 
B and Front streets. 

Kelly, Michael, laborer, corner South T) and 3d streets. 

Kennedy, John, laborer, corner South D and 3d streets. 

Kelsey S., carpenter, residence South C street between 1st and 2d. 

KEENE, JOHN, farmer, residence suburbs East Laramie. 

Keene, Patrick, laborer, residence 1st streeet, between South D and E. 

Kendall, Warren, teamster, residence 3d street, between South F 
and G. 

Kerfoot, Lee, machinist, residence corner Cedar and South D streets. 

Keil, Mrs. Fanny, music-teacher, residence corner South C and 5th 
streets. 

Keller, Dugan, miner, boards New York House. 



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Keefer, Henry, lumberman, boards New York House. 

Ketteler, Wm., salesman, with M. G. Fonn. 

Kellet, Thos. J., brakeman, rooms in Fischer's Block. 

Kellet, John, brakeman, rooms in Fischer's Block. 

Kemmis, Thos., laborer, residence South D street, between 1st and 2d, 

Kerns, Edward, brick-maker, boards New York House. 

KINGMAN, J. W., attorn ey-at-law, residence corner Center and 
4th streets. 

King, James, locomotive engineer, residence corner 1st and South G 
streets. , 

Kirby, Thomas, laborer, residence 1st street, between South D and E. 

Korty, W. H., boot-maker, residence South A street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Korb, Charles H., teamster, boards Mechanics House. 

KUSTER, CHARLES, liquor merchant, residence South A street, 
between 1st and 2d. 

Klingerman, Chas., contractor and builder, residence corner South 
B and 3d streets. 

Knaddler, Morgan, water-works, residence 3d street, between South 
D and E. 

Knabe, Mrs. Mary, seamstress, residence 1st street, between South C 
and E. 

Knox, Alex, machinist, residence 1st street, between South F and G. 

Kregor, Augustus, barber, residence 3d street, between South C and D. 

LANCASTER, G. W., harness-maker, residence corner South B 
and 3d streets. 

Lamphere, F. M., carpenter, residence 2d street, between North B 
and C. 

Lacy, Michael, boarding house, South B street, between 2d and 3d. 

Labalda, John, laborer, suburbs East Laramie. 

Langdon, W. G., train dispatcher U. P. R. R., residence corner 
North A and 1st streets. 

Lafever, John, lumberman, boards New York House. 

Lauck, J. B., railroad conductor, residence 2d street, between Center 
and North A. 

Laith, George, machinist, residence South D street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Labonta, D. F., farmer, residence suburbs North Laramie. 
Larsen, Erick, laborer, works in car shops. 



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Lewis, Henry M., laborer, residence 2d street, between Soutli F 

and G. t • tr * i 

LEHMAN, E. J., merchant, boards Laramie Hotel. 

Lecper, F. M., salesman, at Hellman's. 

LEROY, 0. R., hardware merchant, corner South A and 2d streets. 

Lewis Wm., miner, home at Worth's Hotel. 

LemmoD, James, miner, home at Worth's Hotel. 

Little, George, trader, resides suburbs East Laramie. 

Lilly, John, laborer, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Long, Mrs. M. M., seamstress, residence 4th street, between South B 

^°Lo^ng, John, laborer, residence 4th street, between South B and C. 
Loenhardt, Wm., butcher, residence 2d street, between South A 

'totnz, Alex, butcher, residence 2d street, between S-*^^ ^^ |- 
Lloyd, Wesley, laborer, residence 2d street, between South D and E. 
Lovett,Wm., painter, boards Lacy's boarding house. 
Lonargan, David, laborer, residence 1st strj^et, between South 

and D. • 

Lousan, F. machinist, boards New York House. 

Logan, Terry, boiler-maker, residence Pine street, between South D 

"iumbard. Miss Minnie, hair-dresser, corner 2d and South B streets. 
Lowman. H. L., capitalist, office corner South A and 2d streets 
MARTIN, PETER, machinist, residence South C street, between 

'TartitTbos., machinist, residence corner South G and 1st streets. 
Martin, John H., laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 
Mandigo, Chas., laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 
Machinter, Chris, teamster, residence 2d street, near *« «reek 
Mandel, Phillip, stock-grower, residence corner South C and 4th 

'* Marvin, Mrs. J. E., dress-maker, residence 4th street between South 

C and D. . „ . i 

Malloy, L., brakeman, boards Mechanics Hotel. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 

MatthLn, James, carpenter, residence corner South E and 1st streets. 

Marchion, John, butcher, boards Fuhr's Restaurant. 

Marquette, Geo., miner, boards New York House. 

Manasse, Wm., merchant, 2d street, between South A and B. 



GENERAL DIRECTORY. gl 



Marsh, Robert, clerk car depot, residence corner Front and North A 
streets. 

Madson, Paul, laborer, residence 1st street, between Center and 
North A. 

Madson, C, carpenter, residence 1st street, between Center and 
North A. 

Madson, M., brick-layer, residence 1st street, between Center and 
North A. 

Maple, Louise, residence 2d street, between South F and G. 

Medley, J. J., wheelwright, boards Western House. 

Metz, Charles, baker, residence Front street, between South A and B. 

Meldrum, J. W., county clerk, residence corner South A and 7th 
streets. 

METCALF, A. J., book-keeper, residence 3d street, between Center 
and North A. 

METCALF, JOHN, carpenter, residence 2d street, between Center 
South A. 

Metcalf, Thos., laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Merrell, Homer, attorney-at-law, residence South B street, between 
4th and 5th. 

Merrill, M. N., jeweler, boards Fuhr's Restaurant. 

Merrill, O., brakeman, boards Miss Cay's boarding house. 

Merritt, H. N., gunsmith, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Methfessel, Chris., tailor, residence 2d street, between South B and C. 

Mertins, Henry, bar-tender, at Tivoli Hall. 

Mercier, Isadore, manufacturer soda water. South A street, between 
ist and 2d. 

Mitchell, John, mason, residence 4th Street, between North C and D. 

Mitchell, Chas., engineer, residence Pine street suburbs. 

MILLER, LOUIS, jeweler, residence corner North B and 2d streets. 

Miller, Wm. C, lumberman, residence Cedar street, between South 
A and B. 

Miller, Chas., fireman, residence suburbs south. 

Mills, W. A., railroad conductor, boards at Laramie Hotel, 

MILLS, S. L., Superintendent's clerk, U. P. R. R., residence on 
corner of North A and 2d streets. 

Mills, T. C. miner, boards at Worth's Hotel. 

Mills, M. H., telegraph operator, boards at Laramie Hotel. 

Morris, M. P., porter, New York House. 
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32 LARAMIE CITY. 



Moritz, John, cook, New York House. 

Morrison, John, stone-mason, residence on South B street, near rail- 
road track. 

Morrison, Chas., brakeman, boards at Mechanics House. 

Morse, J. G-., telegraph repairer, boards at Laramie HoteL 

Moresy, John, painter, boards at Mechanics House. 

Moir, Frank, machinist, residence on corner of North C and 7th 
streets. 

Moore, D. G., machinist, residence on corner of North C and 2d 
streets. 

Moody, Thos. B., hunter, boards at Frontier HoteL 

Mosby, Henry, (colored) cook, Laramie Hotel. 

Montgomery, Mrs. Sarah, residence on corner of South A and 2d 
streets. 

Murphy, M. H., saloon-keeper, residence on corner of South B and 
1st streets. 

Murphy, Miss HaDnah, proprietress of Western House. 

Murphy, Wm. L., Sen., coppersmith, residence on corner of South 
E and 3d streets. 

Murphy, Wm. L., Jr., brass finisher, residence on corner of South E 
and 3d streets. 

MURPHY, J. L., carpenter, residence on corner of South C and 
3d streets. 

Murphy, P. G., farmer and contractor, residence on 2d street, between 
North A and B. 

Muncy, E. W., bartender, boards at Fuhr's Restaurant. 

Mulholland, J. H., jeweler, rooms in Vogelsang's Block. 

Myers, John, saloon-keeper, residence on corner of South E and 2d 
streets. 

McCarthy, P., water-works, resideuce corner South D and 3d sts. 

McPherson, C, miner, residence 2d street, between South G and H. 

McPherson, David, machinist, residence Cedar street, between South 
D and E. 

McGibbon, James, machinist, residence Cedar street, between South 
D and E. 

McKenzie, Adam, farmer, residence suburbs. East Laramie. 

McKinney, Hugh, speculator, rooms corner South C and 3d sts. 

McNair, William, wheelwright, rooms 3d street, between South B 
and C. 



GENERAL DIRECTORY. 83 



McDermot, D. D., locomotive engineer, residence 4th street, between 
Center and North A. 

McCune, Alexander, farmer, residence corner South D and 5th sts. 

McDonough, Fred., expressman, residence corner Center and 6th 
streets. 

McCoy, George, fireman, boards at Miss Cay's boarding house. 

McCummins, Joseph, shoemaker with A. Vogelsang. 

McManis, Dennis, timberman, boards at New York House. 

McGill, John, timberman, boards at New York House. 

McGuflfey, Henry, timberman, boards at New York House. 

MeKabe, John, timberman, boards at Western House. 

Mcintosh, William, timberman, boards at Western House. 

McMahon, Edward, cook, residence corner Cedar and Center streets, 

McCartney, Susan, dressmaker, corner North A and 2d streets. 

McFADDEN, G. W., artist, residence South B street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

McMahon, Con., laborer, boards at Rolling Mill House. 

McQuinn, James, teamster, boards at Western House. 

McGreevy, J, J., contractor, boards corner South A and 2d streets. 

McLeod, John, U. P. R. R. storekeeper. 

McGuire, Thomas, brakeman, boards Fuhr's Restaurant. 

McHugh, Thomas, locomotive engineer, residence 1st street, between 
South B and C. 

McDonald, J. George, attorney, residence 2d street, between South 
E and F. 

McDaniels, Duncan, bartender at Sunnyside. 

Nash, A. L., brakeman, residence Front street, between North A 
and B. 

Narsmith, W. J., fireman, boards at Clark's Restaurant. 

Nagle, John, laborer, residence 2d street, between South E and F. 

Neal, John, carpenter, residence 4th street, between South F and G. 

Neal, Cyrus, farmer, residence 4th street, between south E and F . 

Nellis, Mrs. L. C, dressmaker, residence South A street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Nellis Jerome, farmer, residence South A street, between 1st and 2d. 

Nelson, Nelse, laborer, residence suburbs, southwest. 

Nibbling, Charles, laborer, boards at Western House. 

Noyes, Mrs. Ellener, cook, residence South C street, between 1st 
and 2d. 



84 LAEAMIE CITY. 



Norton, Augustus, fireman, boards at Rolling Mill House. 

Noonan, Edward, plumber, boards at Rolling Mill House. 

Nottage Daniel, U. P. yard master, residence corner Cedar and South 
C streets. 

Nottage, William, fireman, residence Cedar street, between South B 
and C. 

Olson, Nelson, merchant, residence South B street, between 2d and 3d. 

Olson, Mrs. S., boarding house corner South C and 1st streets. 

Olson, L., boarding house Spruce street, between South T> and E. 

Oldham, Samuel, carpenter, boards at Ritter's Restaurant. 

Oberst, George, bricklayer, boards at New York House. 

O'Neal, William, (colored), cook at Ritter's Restaurant. 

Osburn, A. M., railroad conductor, residence corner North A and 4th 
streets. 

Paule, John, laborer, boards at Western House. 

Peterson, Andrew, jeweler, residence 3d street, between South F 
and G. 

Peters, John L., plasterer, rooms corner South A and 2d streets. 

Peterson, M., laborer, residence Cedar street, between South G and H. 

Peironnet, Charles, railroad conductor, residence 4th street, between 
North A and B. 

Peironnet, Thomas A., brakeman, residence 2d street, between South 
C and D. 

Pearson, Lawrence, brakeman, residence South C street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Pease, L. D., justice of the peace, residence South B street, between 
5th and 6th. 

Pease, Ira A., book-keeper, residence South B street, between 5th 
and 6th. 

Pickle, H. N., laborer, residence corner South C and 3d streets. 

Pierson, E. D., miner, residence 4th street, between South B and C. 

Pickett, George, locomotive engineer, boards Worth's Hotel. 

Polchow, Theodore, bar-tender, 2d street, between South B and C. 

Powers, Chas., laborer, residence suburbs East Laramie. 

Powell, S. F., laborer, residence South C street, between 1st and 2d. 

Pooler, Robt. L., stock-grower, residence corner South B and 2d 
streets. 

Puffer, Mrs. S. J., dress-maker, residence corner South B and 2d 
streets. 



GENERAL DIRECTORY. §5 

Phillips, Wm., railroad conductor, residence corner North A and 1st 
streets. 

Phillips, Charles, railroad conductor, residence corner South A and 
6th streets. 

Plate, Wm., laborer, residence 2d street, between South B and C. 

Pratt, W. L., printer, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

Prahl, Fred, grocer, residence corner Spruce and South D streets. 

Preston, Henry, (colored,) cook, Sunnyside. 

Phelps, M. O., laborer, boards Western House. 

Parton, Mrs. Miranda, house-keeper, residence Cedar street, between 
South A and B. 

Pattee, J. M., capitalist, office corner South A and 2d streets. 

Quinn, W. J., salesman, at Leroy's hardware store. 

Quinn, John, blacksmith, residence South D street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Ransom, Edward, clerk, boards corner South A and 4th streets. 

Ralston, Ellis, fireman, rooms Fischer's block. 

Raife, John, railroad conductor, boards Laramie Hotel. 

Reals, Charles, locomotive engineer, residence Front street, between 
South A and B. 

Reid, John, machinist, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Reid, James, painter, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Reed, Miss Fanny, needle work, residence corner 3d and South C 
streets. 

Reinbold, Henry, brewer, corner South C and 2d streets. 

Reich, M., clerk, at Abbots. 

Rice, Frank, barber, residence corner South C and 3d streets. 

RITTER, GEORGE W., Probate Judge and proprietor of Ritter's 
Restaurant. 

Riggs, Will, fireman, boards Worth's Hotel. 

Ridgley, Henderson, geologist, boards Worth's Hotel. 

Richardson, Bennett, laborer, residence Cedar street, between South 
F|and G. 

Richards, H. H., salesman for Wanless. 

Richards, , laborer, residence suburbs south-west. 

Riffil, John W., locomotive engineer, residence Spruce street, be- 
tween South C and D. 

Roach, H. IsT., clerk, rooms South C street, between 1st and 2d. 

Roach, James, laborer, boards New York House. 



86 LARAMIE CITY. 



Kose, John, brakeman, boards l^ew York House. 

Kobinson, Thos., (colored,) saloon-keeper, South A street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Kollins, Frank, brakeman, boards Laramie Hotel. 

Roden, J. A., porter, freight depot. 

Kosecrans, Chas., timberman, boards Lacy's boarding house. 

Roach, M. F., herder, boards Mechanics House. 

Ross, Robt. C, druggist, residence South B street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Robinson, John, miner, boards Worth's Hotel. 

Robinson, John, mason, residence corner South E and 3d streets. 

Rogers, Alonzo, carpenter, residence corner North B and 4th streets. 

Rogers, Oscar, carpenter, residence corner North B and 4th streets. 

Rogers, T. J., mason, rooms 3d street, between Center and North A. 

Rogers, D. J., mason, rooms 3d street, between Center and North A. 

ROBERTS, JOHN L., stone-cutter, residence South B street, be- 
tween 3d and 4th. 

Roberts, Harry L., plasterer, residence South B street, between 3d 
and 4th. 

Rohn, Hugo, wine merchant, South B street, between 1st and 2d. 

Root, C. B., cashier Wyoming National Bank, residence 2d street, 
between South A and B. 

RUMSEY, H. B., mayor, residence Laramie Hotel. 

RUMSEY, P., proprietor Laramie Hotel. 

Ruprecht, Fred., barber, corner 1st and South B streets. 

Ruschpler, A., clerk in Kuster's liquor store. 

Ryan, John, fireman, residence 1st street, between south F and G 

Ryan, T. E., timberman, boards at Lacy's boarding house. 

Ryan, Peter, timberman, boards at Lacy's boarding house. 

SALTLSBURY, DAVID, wood yard, residence suburbs, southeast. 

Snowden, George, (colored), laborer, residence 3d street, between 
South C and D. 

Sawyer, G. L., laborer, residence 2d street, between South G and H. 

Singen, Asmus, laborer, residence 3d street, between South F and G. 

Skidmore, I. V., miner, residence 2d street, between South G and H. 

Spicer, N. F., warden of penitentiary, residence corner North A and 
4th streets. 

Scanlin, B. F., locomotive engineer, residence corner Center and 3d 
streets. 



GENEEAL DIEECTORY. ^7 



Strong, N. R. S., carpenter, residence corner North C and 3d sts. 

SWAIN", A. G., merchant, residence South B street, between 4th 
and 5th. 

Stephens, A. P., civil engineer, residence corner South A and 4th 
streets. 

Seymour, Henry, bar-tender in Frontier Hotel. 

Sherod, J. M., farmer, suburbs, near the creek. 

Simpson, William, farmer, suburbs, near the creek. 

SMITH, BEN. F., carpenter, boards at New York House. 

Stone, Horton J., book-keeper, boards 5th street, between Center and 
North A. 

Sinclair, Walter, deputy county clerk, residence corner North B and 
5th streets. 

Sheldon, W. A., railroad conductor, residence corner North B and 
2d streets. 

Smith, M., liquor dealer, residence 2d street, between North A 
andB. 

Stein, Gustave, machinist, boards at Mechanics House. 

Schenck, Fritz, bartender city brewery. 

Schroder, William, carpenter, residence 3d street, between South B 
and C. 

Steward, William, fireman, boards at Miss Cay's boarding house. 

Schwass, Charles, laborer, boards corner South A and 4th streets. 

Strope, W. H., cigar store. South B street, between 1st and 2d. 

Stearly, Fred, railroad conductor, boards at Clark's Restaurant. 

Sells, L. B., brakeman, boards at Mechanics House. 

Stoller, H. S., salesman at Henry Wagner's. 

Spearing, John, timberman, boards at New York House. 

Spaulding, Samuel, (colored) barber, 2d street, between South A 
andB. 

Steinhoff, , barber, boards at Worth's Hotel. 

Sloan, James, timberman, boards at Clark's Restaurant. 

Stephenson, W. O., tinner for C. R. Leroy. 

Smith, G. G., printer in Sentinel office. 

Staples, D. C, locomotive engineer, residence corner Center and 2d 
streets. 

Stone, James E., book-keeper, boards at Clark's Restaurant. 

Slatton, John H., barber, Frontier Hotel. 

Stone, Sam., brick-maker, boards at Ritter's Restaurant. 



83 LAKAMIE CITY. 



Smith, Edwin, brakeman, boards at Frontier Hotel. 

Smith, Samuel, cook, Worth's Hotel. 

Stone, Horace, laborer, residence corner South C and 1st streets. 

Savage, John, mason, residence 1st street, between South C and D. 

Slack, E. A., editor " Laramie Sun," residence corner Korth B and 
2d streets. 

Shannesey, George O., laborer, residence South D street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Scott, William H., carpenter, residence South B street, between 2d 
and 3d. 

Sayers, , machinist, residence 3d street, between South E and F. 

Strong, N. B., railroad conductor, residence South A street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Strong, Charles, locomotive engineer, boards at Rolling Mill House. 

Sliter, George, fireman, boards at Rolling Mill House. 

SHANKLAND, S. T., Division Superintendent U. P. R. R., resi- 
dence corner North A and 2d streets. 

Simpson, L. W., brakeman, residence corner Cedar and South C 
streets. 

Simpson, J. B., locomotive engineer, residence suburbs South Lara- 
mie. 

Stevens, Mrs. Lizzie, laundress, Clark's Restaurant. 

Sterling, James, laborer, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Snodgrass, A. T., clerk and accountant, rooms 2d street, between 
South C and D. 

Savage, Z. T., Rector Episcopal Church, rooms Laramie Hotel. 

Sprague, Wm. B., locomotive engineer, residence Front street, be- 
tween South A and B. 

Smith, John, teamster, residence Front street, between South A 
and B. 

Stewart, Andrew, fireman, Cedar street, between South E and F. 

Tanner, Milo B., farmer, residence corner North D and 4th streets. 

Taylor, David, machinist, boards corner 2d and South C streets. 

Taylor, Charles, book-keeper, residence 1st street, between South F 
and G. 

Terwilleger, Stephen, wheelwright, boards Western House. 

Ties, John, cabinet-maker, residence 2d street, between South B 
andC. 

Tidder, Chris., saloon-keeper, 1st street, between South A and B. 



GENEKAL DIRECTOEY. §9 



Tipton, C. T., teamster, residence Cedar Street, between South A 
and B. 

Tonn, M. G., merchant, residence 2d street, between South A and B. 

TITOMAS, E. A., Associate Justice of Supreme Court, residence 
corner North A and 4th street. 

Thiele, H. W., Pastor Baptist Church, residence South B street, be- 
tween 4th and 5th. 

Thomas, Wm., laborer, boards 3d street, between South B and C. 

Thompson, Polk, locomotive engineer, boards Miss Cay's boarding 
house. 

THEOBALD, J. E., shoe-maker, shop 1st street, between South A 
and B. 

Throbroe, Louis, brakeman, boards corner South C and 3d streets. 

Thatcher, J. 'N., miner, boards Rolling Mill House. 

Thies, Nicholas, blacksmith, residence 1st street, between South B 
and C. 

Tryon, Miss Laura, dress-maker, residence corner Center and 3d 
streets. 

Turpin, Richard, miner, boards New York House. 
U^TRIGGS, J. H., mineralogist and farmer, residence farm west side 
Laramie River. 

Turner, W. H., cook, New York House. 

Turner, Richard, cook, Laramie Hotel. 

Thornton, Robt., laborer, Dillon's livery stable. 

Yanhouten, J. T., clerk, residence corner North B and 2d streets. 

Varus, H. B., brakeman, boards Ritter's Restaurant. 

VINE, JAMES, furniture dealer, residence 3d street, between Center 
and South A. 

Vogelsang, August, boot and shoemaker. South B street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Wagner, Henry, merchant, residence corner South A and 4th streets. 

Wagner, Ed. J., salesman for Henry Wagner. 

Wagner, W. A., teamster, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Watkins, John S., butcher, with Hutton & Metcalf. 

Walters, L. B., laborer, boards Frontier Hotel. 

Walters, Joseph, (colored,) porter for J. W. Conner. 

Walters, C. W., laborer, boards Clark's Restaurant. 

Walters, Augustus, laborer, residence 2d street between South E 
andF. 

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90 LAKAMIE CITY. 



Walter, Albert, farmer, suburbs, near the creek. 

Walter, Robert, brewer, Fred Bath's brewery. 

Watt, Cullen, timberman, boards Lacy's boarding house. 

Waters, Wm., livery stable keeper, corner South C and 2d streets. 

Washington, Geo., (colored,) waiter, Laramie Hotel. 

Washington, Hannah, (colored,) laundress, residence South C street, 
between 1st and 2d. 

Warren, Thomas, laborer, residence 1st street, between South D 
andE. 

Warner, John, cook, N"ew York House. 

WANLESS, JOHN, merchant. South A street, between 1st and 2d. 

Wands, John B., bakery and restaurant. Front street, between Center 
and South A. 

Walker, Henry, machinist, residence Pine street, between South D 
and E. 

WEBBER, N. T., lumber dealer, residence on corner of North A 
and 2d streets. 

Weythman, Miss Mollie, dressmaker, South B street, between 1st 
and 2d. 

Werthimer, Leopold, clerk, 2d street, between South A and B. 

Webster, T. J., printer, residence on 2d street, between Center and 
North A. 

Welsh, Michael, machinist, residence on 2d street, between South B 
and C. 

Williams, Charles, brakeman, residence on corner of North B and 
4th streets. 

Williams, G. C, miner, residence on 2d street, between South I) 
and E. 

Williams, Robert, (colored) cook, Laramie Hotel. 

WILLIAMS, A. T., merchant, residence on South B street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Williams, Edward, hunter, boards at New York House. 

Williams, T. P., telegraph operator, residence rear of Western 
Union Telegraph Office. 

Williams, Wesley, (colored) cook, boards South A street, between 
Ist and 2d. 

Williams, William N., laborer, boards at Western House. 

Williams, John M., laborer, boards at Western House. 

Wilson, John, teamster, boards at Lacy's boarding house. 



GENEEAL DIRECTORY. 9X 

WILCOX, L. T., jeweler, business and residence corner South A 
and 2d streets. 

Wilson, W. C, proprietor billiard hall, residence corner Front and 
North A streets. 

Willis, Asa, saloon-keeper, rooms corner South C and 3d streets. 

WILLE, CHRIS., boot and shoe dealer, South B street, between 
1st and 2d. 

Wilmot, Henry, fireman, residence Front street, between North A 
and B. 

Wilkins, A. T., locomotive engineer, residence 1st street, corner 
South G. 

Wilkelmson, John, blacksmith, residence suburbs South Laramie. 

Wilbur, Henry, teamster, residence Front street, between South A 
and B. 

Wiegand, William, partner in Fuhr's Restaurant. 

Wickham, Horace, laborer, boards at Frontier Hotel. 

Wing, Samuel S., express agent, residence in rear of U. P. Express 
office. 

Wicks, Thomas, blacksmith, residence 1st street, between South F 
and G. 

WORTH, N. C, proprietor Worth's Hotel, corner 1st and South B 
streets. 

Woods, IST. Z., fireman, rooms in Vogelsang's block. 

Woods, Nelson, timberman, boards at Western House. 

WRIGHT, JOHN A., saddle and harness dealer, 2d street, between 
South B and C. 

Wright, L. T., horse jockey, residence corner South B and 2d sts. 

Wright, M. H., locomotive engineer, residence 2d street, between 
South B and C. 

White, James, painter, shop South B street, between 1st and 2d. 

Yetzer, Anthony, blacksmith, corner South D and 2d streets. 

Young, George, proprietor Mechanics House, South B street, be- 
tweeen 1st and 2d. 

Young, Nelson, (colored), waiter Laramie Hotel. 

Zimmerman, Martin, hostler, Frontier Hotel. 



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HISTORY AND DIRECTORY 



LARAMIE CITY, 



WYOMING TERRITORY 



COMPRISING 



A BRIEF HISTORY OF LARAMIE CITY FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 
THE PRESENT TIME, TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF THE CHARAC- 
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INCLUDING A MINUTE DESCRIPTION OF A PORTION 
OF THE MINING REGION OF THE 



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